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Hazel Newnham Abbot (1894-1984) Mixed Media, c. 1959

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Hazel Newnham Abbot (1894-1984) Mixed Media, c. 1959
Hazel Newnham Abbot (1894-1984) Mixed Media, sight size 14 1/4" x 21", "Colorful Colorado", signed lower left, circa 1959.

Condition notes: Some paint loss.

A western landscape painter, especially of Colorado and the Southwest, Hazel Abbot grew up in Canada and came to the United States in 1917. Her sister was painter Agnes Abbot. Hazel studied art for four years at the Child-Walker School of Fine Arts in Boston and attended the Charles Woodbury Summer School of Painting at Ogunquit, Maine.
In 1935, she and her sister-in-law, Agnes Abbot, had a two-woman exhibition at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and several years later she had a solo exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
Source: "Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick