"LOVE IN BLOOM" -Mary Vickers -Original Drawing -1974 -Signed

THE WORK OF MARY VICKERS AS SEEN THROUGH HER EYES

“One of the most important things to me is that people should feel and show love for each other. If I could embrace the world, I would. I am lucky though; I can reach many people through my work, and people tell me they feel love when they look at one of my paintings, and they are right, for I don’t feel that the painting is fully completed until it has been loved and owned by the person I really painted it for, even though I may never see the. I am not a person who can paint for myself alone; although I must paint something I like or feel is an extension of me. It gives me the ultimate pleasure when it has a loving owner, for in my mind, I feel that that person has accepted and loved me. It is almost like an actor who is stimulated by an approving audience. The public is a life-giving force essential for his work; so it is with mine.

I have painted many subjects during my career, appreciating all the beautiful things in life, and perhaps only seeing that side of them and ignoring the bad. My attitude is generally that way; for or bad depending on how one comes to look at it. I prefer to depict the beauty I see, maybe making it better than it really is, as in my way it works to combat the bad things that are a reality i life also.

My latest subject matter depicts the tender, loving side of a male-female relationship. My object is to show that this wonderful, natural relationship can be depicted in a tasteful, beautiful way—the way I feel we all would dream it should be—the way I know it is.

I have made many lovely friends from the people who admire my painting, for I feel they share my feelings on life, and it is encouraging to know that so many feel that way—with that attitude we have much going for us to achieve the ultimate we all must desire—“peace on earth.

EDUCATION

S.E. Essex School of Art

St. Martine School of Art

New York Art Student League

Pratt Institue Graphic Center, N.Y.

AS OF THE 1970’S

COLLECTIONS

Sarah Churchill, London, England

Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, London, England

T.  Huxley Jones, London, England

Mr. & Mrs. F.E. Willatts, London, England

Johnny Ray, London, England

Max Bygraves, London, England

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Alda, Rome, Italy

Sr. & Sra. Leonardo Nierman, Mexico City

Miss Peggy Lipton, Los Angeles, California

Frankie Land, Los Angeles, California

Guy Mitchell, Los Angeles, California

Mr. & Mrs. Harry Skleros, Commack, N.Y.

David Holliday, New York, N.Y.

Mr. & Mrs. James Leeds, Lexington, Kentucky

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Krauss, Nyack, N.Y.

Mr. & Mrs. G. King, Palm Beach, Florida

AWARDS

1967 -Lake Art Ass’n, N.Y. -Two first prizes in oils

1968 -Mystic Art Festival, Conn. -Second prize in oils

ONE WOMAN SHOWS

1969- Mitch Morse Gallery, Lawerence, N.Y.

1969- Verily Gallery, Northport, N.Y.

1970 -Mitch Morse Gallery II, New Hope, PA

1970- Priscilla’s Gallery, Pt. Washing, N.Y.

1971- Mitch Morse Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1971 -Loradel Gallery, Huntington, N.Y.

1972 -Lafayette Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky

1973

Marina Gallery, Nycak, N.Y.

Merrill Chase Galleris, Chicago, Illinois

Main Street Gallery, Kingston, PA

Art deL’ile, Paris, France

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

Mitch More Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Merrill Chase Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

Lafayetter Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky

Marina Gallery, Nysack, N.Y.

Montmartre Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Main Streng Gallery, Kingston, PA

Gallery Francesca, San Juan, P.R.

Stars and Stripes, Memphis, Tenn

Galeria Veronese, New Orleans, LA