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Meredith Brooks Abbott

Meredith Brooks Abbott (Born 1938) is active/lives in California.  Meredith Abbott is known for Landscape, still life and portrait painting.

A plein-air impressionist painter, Meredith Abbott is from California, where she grew up in an idyllic rural setting above Carpinteria, just south of Santa Barbara. Her parents emphasized a deep appreciation and reverence for the land, and she and her three siblings were allowed to spend much time exploring on foot and horseback.

Abbott attended Scripps College in Claremont and majored in art. She returned home and studied with Douglass Parshall (1899-1990), Richard Meryman (1891-1963), and Clarence Hinkle (1880-1960). From these men with whom she occasionally went on plein-air painting trips, she gained a solid background in realist and impressionist painting.

After several years, she went to Los Angeles where she attended the Art Center School, and then she studied in New York at the Art Students League, while working as an illustrator. After Richard Meryman died, she completed some of his portraits, having visited him in Ireland.

In 1970, Abbott returned to Cali   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2716 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Meredith Brooks Abbott

   Publications  Book References:  9
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Meredith Brooks Abbott
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur Welcome, Spring: Capturing the Glory of a Garden March 2006 Editors, Fine Art Connoisseur Yes
Southwest Art In Their Element November 2004 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Southwest Art By the Sea June 2004 Kolpas, Norman Yes
Art & Antiques Coming of Age June 2003 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Yes
Art of the West Tradition Lives On/CA Art Club June 2000 Stavig, Vickie Yes
Southwest Art The Oak Group June 1996 Runbeck, Kathryn Yes
Southwest Art Market Report March 1996 Moure, Nancy Dustin Yes
9 Book References for Meredith Brooks Abbott
Year Author Title Pages Color
2011 Stern, Jean and Molly Siple (Skira Rizzoli Publisher) California Light: A Century of Landscapes Paintings of the California Art Club 276 Yes
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
2003 Stern, Jean; Roy C. Rose and Molly Siple Enchanted Isle: A History of Plein-Air Painting in Santa Catalina Island 256 Yes
2002 Blake, Janet (Essay) Meredith Brooks Abbott Exhibition: Maureen Murray Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2000 Stern, Jean; Jeffrey Morseburg California Art Club: 90th Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
156 Yes
1997 Hagerty, Donald J Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors 213 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1990 Catalina Art Association The Plein Air Painters of America Exhibit and Sale
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
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