Mary Callery
1903–1977

Introduction

Mary Callery (June 19, 1903 – February 12, 1977) was an American artist known for her Modern and Abstract Expressionist sculpture. She was part of the New York School art movement of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

It is said she "wove linear figures of acrobats and dancers, as slim as spaghetti and as flexible as India rubber, into openwork bronze and steel forms. A friend of Picasso, she was one of those who brought the good word of French modernism to America at the start of World War II".

Wikidata identifier

Q6779164

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Introduction

Comment on works: sculptor

Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, genre artist, sculptor

ULAN identifier

500012644

Names

Mary Callery, Mary Callery-Frua-d'Angeli, mary callery

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