Mary Turlay Robinson
Various titles, dates, etc. as below
Watercolor on paper
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Mary Turlay Robinson (b. 1888)
Fontainebleau Three Views
American: 1932
Watercolor on paper
5.5 x 8.25 inches, each
$200, the set of 3

Fontainebleau (Gardens)
Titled and dated lower right: Fontainebleau , Sept. 30, ‘32

Clouds
Titled and dated lower right: Clouds – Sept. 30, '32 – Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau (Garden Bird's-eye View)
Signed, titled and dated lower right: From the S. ludis [?] window – Fontainebleau – M. J. Robinson Oct. 1 '32

Three views of the Palace Fontainebleau in France, which was built by Henry II and Catherine de Medici in the 16th century and augmented and modified by successive generations of French monarchs into the 19th century.

New York World's Fair
American: 1939
Signed and dated lower right: M.T.R. 1939
7 x 5 inches overall
$100

The Trilon and the Perisphere, the central structures of the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing, Queens.

Paris Park
American: 1947
Signed, titled, dated lower right: MTR Paris Sept. ‘47
7 x 5 inches, overall
$50

Mary Turlay Robinson was a painter and lecturer based in New York City. She studied at Vassar College, the Art Students League, and the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts. She was a member of the American Federation of Arts and the French Fresco Society and served as an officer of the French Academy in 1933. Among her exhibitions were the Salon d'Automne (1925) and Les Independents (1926) in Paris and in New York at the National Association of Women Artists and the American Woman's Association in the 1930s. Her papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Reference:

Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p p. 523 (Robinson) and 286 (Hoffman).