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- Mary Orwen in 1959 (en)
- Mary Orwen, Waterfront, about 1950, oil on board, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (en)
- Mary Orwen, 1st Phase, 1939, watercolor, 9 x 14 inches (en)
- Mary Orwen, Burnam Wood, about 1960, acrylic on canvas, 35 x 50 inches (en)
- Installation view, "Women of Jefferson Place Gallery", Cody Gallery, Marymount University, 2019 (en)
- Mary Orwen, Untitled, 1958, acrylic on canvas, 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (en)
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- My pictures grow out of a desire to find an echo in the visible world of the order which I feel exists beneath the complexity of life. I should like to translate into an organic form sensations of space which seem to suggest this inner rhythm. For me, these sensations are more evident in the tension and movement between forms and colors than in the analysis of form itself. In this pursuit the glob of paint, the drip, the patch of color are all legitimate tools. (en)
- An emerging artist in New York in 1939, Orwen’s interest in the emotion of non-objective painting convinced her to abandon all other art. Her work caught the eye of Hilla Rebay, founding director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting , where Orwen would eventually exhibit in 1940 and 1942. (en)
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