Mary Abbott, also known as Mary Lee Abbott, was an American artist associated with Abstract Expressionism. Her abstract and figurative work was exhibited at places like the Denver Art Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery. "Generally speaking the women at the Club weren't treated differently than anyone else -- an artist was an artist. Sometimes you might get treated like a girl because you were pretty. I was chosen to collect the dues and go buy the booze because I was pretty and the guys would pay up if I asked them to. Other times you had to be tough to be taken seriously," she once remarked. Born in 1921 in New York City, United States, she also passed away in her hometown in 2019. Abbott studied at the Chapin School, New York City, and the...