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Dear Collective Wisdom, We have a graduate student here at Rutgers working with a patron on finding information on Mary Collins Ammirato. Below is what we know about her thus far. If anyone can direct us to any resources that would be fantastic, we are beginning to feel at a real loss for any information about this artist. Mary Collins Ammirato or Mary Ammirato-Collins. She was active in the early 20th century, born in Texas, received her MFA in Boston. She was an artist and poet who lived in Paris and studied at the Academie Julian. The query is info on the artist, especially on her works in enamel. Research thus far: the graduate student found a few articles on the women artists in the Academie Julian or American artists in Paris in the late 19th/early 20th c., since she was not a famous artist, her name did not crop up in any of the 4 related articles on JSTOR, or in a copy of a text in the library, Feher (1999) Overcoming All Obstacles: Women of the Academie Julian. Women artist libguides didn't bring anything else up. EBSCO didn't yield anything will a full-text search either for the artist. The individual making the request already reached out to Boston about her MFA and yielded nothing. I cannot find any record of her art other than Ebay records, so I'm not sure what, if any, auction houses might have an artist record for her. The only source that comes up on WorldCat is a short exhibition catalogue: Woodstock Gallery (London). (1973). Enamels. Many thanks, Megan Megan Lotts, MFA, M.L.I.S Art Librarian Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (848)932-7189 [log in to unmask] <http://www.meganlotts.com> www.meganlotts.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~