Mary Ammirato-Collins
Mary Ammirato-Collins was an American artist from Houston, Texas.
Ammirato-Collins was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived in the Canary Islands with husband Claudio Ammirato, who was an artist and composer, and a physicist. Both who were long time friends of heiress Eleanor Post Hutton. Mary was a travel companion of Eleanor's and also a Ziegfeld Follies girl in New York City where she met Claudio.
Ammirato-Collins wrote the libretto for her husband's opera, Paradise Lost .
Selected exhibitions
- 1973 – Woodstock Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 1974 – Art Alliance, Philadelphia, United States
- 1976 –, Spain
- 1976 – Provincial Palace, Zaragoza, Spain
Books
Ammirato was the author of several books of poems, some of which were illustrated by her husband Claudio Ammirato:- The Beach at Sierra Helada
- Tapestry of Sleep
- Dustless Beauty
- Palm Tree Daughters
- Red Apples of Fall
- Spring in Olympus.