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.<\/p>\n
An interesting introspective note by Robinson was included with the above lot:<\/p>\n
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Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art<\/em>. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p p. 523 (Robinson) and 286 (Hoffman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n Mary Turlay Robinson (b. 1888) Search our site for\u00a0other watercolors by Mary Turlay Robinson.<\/p>\n Watercolor paintings by Mary Turlay Robinson, including four views of homes and gardens in the Westchester County suburban town of Mt. Kisco, New York.\u00a0The Mt. Kisco set includes Mrs. Luquer’s Garden<\/strong>, Miss Morgan’s House<\/strong> and St. Francis by Malvina Hoffman<\/strong>, showing another view of Miss Morgan’s garden, incorporating a statue by Malvina Cornell Hoffman (1887-1966). Hoffman was an American sculptor who studied in Paris with Rodin and had a distinguished career, exhibiting internationally as well as completing important commissions and authoring the book Sculpture Inside and Out<\/strong> (1939).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nMount Kisco, New York, Gardens: Four Views <\/strong>
\nAmerican: 1933-1935
\n5.5 x 8.25 inches, each
\n$200, the set of 4<\/p>\n