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Mary Bonner

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Mary Anita (Polly) Bonner (1887 - 1935) was active/lived in Texas, Louisiana / France.  Mary Bonner is known for Etcher, western, landscape, mural.

Known for her etchings of Texas cowboys and the only noted early 20th-century woman popularizing Texas subjects, Mary Bonner was born in Bastrop, Louisiana but lived most of her life in San Antonio with long periods of time in Paris, France. She learned first hand about Texas cowboys and their lives, and this inspired her artwork, which brought her much acclaim.

She began her formal art training at age sixteen, and her first teacher was Robert Onderdonk. However, she was not totally committed as an artist until 1922 when she began etching, having been advised to do so from an old lithographer. She studied in Munich in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, and was forced to return home, so she enrolled at the Stickney School in Pasadena until 1918. She also went to Woodstock, New York in 1922 and studied with Richard Miller and Bolton Brown, and that summer went to France and became a student of Edouard-Henri Leon, one of France's renowned engraver.

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Mary Bonner available:    Frank Reaugh,  Bill Bomar,  Eloise Polk (EP) McGill,  Hugo Pohl,  Florence Elliott (White) McClung,  Edward Carpenter Bearden,  Clara Pancoast,  Franz Strahalm,  Harold Bugbee,  Jessie Davis,  Kelly Fearing,  Frank Earl Klepper,  Merritt Mauzey,  Otis Dozier,  Harold Roney,  Charles Taylor Bowling,  Jessiejo Eckford,  Reveau Mott Bassett,  William Lester,  Elmer Boone,  Rolla Sims Taylor,  Michael Frary,  Everett Spruce,  Peter Hohnstedt



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18 Book References for Mary Bonner
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1993 Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum 298 Yes
1991 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings for New Collectors 64 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1978 Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 244 Yes
1976 Kovinick, Phil The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960 59 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Editors Who's Who in American Art American Art Annual, 1933 0 No
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