Biografie von Mary Aubrey KEATING (1898-1953)

Birth place: San Antonio, TX

Death place: San Antonio

Addresses: San Antonio

Profession: Painter, muralist, opera singer, writer, teacher

Studied: self-taught; Notre Dame College, Baltimore.

Exhibited: AWCS; PAFA; Painters of the Southwest; CM; AFA; solo traveling exh., 1945; Ney Mus. Art; Witte Mus., 1939; Argent Gal. (solo), 1939; NAWA, 1937 (prize), 1940 (prize); SSAL, 1946 (prize); NYWCC; Calif. WCS, 1951; Texas WCS, 1951, 1952 (prize); Texas FAA, 1952; AFA traveling exh., 1944; Argent Gal., 1948 (solo); Dickens Gal., Chicago, 1952.

Member: NAWA; SSAL; Texas FAA; Texas WCS; Caifl. WCS

Work: murals, Gunter Hotel, San Antonio; San Antonio Pub. Lib.; Aviation Cadet Center, Hospital, San Antonio; USO, San Antonio; Elisabet Ney Mus.

Comments: Specialty: religious and symbolic subjects, scenes of Texas and Mexican history. After her marriage in 1921, she gave up her career in music and took up painting, sketching and painting in Panama, Guatemala and Mexico, wherever her husband's career took her. Auth./illustr.: San Antonio," 1938. Teaching: Witte Mus., San Antonio. Petteys cites a birth date of 1893.

Sources: WW47; WW53; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.