Mary Henry

Mary Henry received her bachelor of fine arts from the California School of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in 1934. After attending a lecture by Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy (1894–1946), she went to study with him at the Institute of Design, Chicago, receiving her master of arts in the late 1940s. Her career as a professional artist stretched over eight decades and she exhibited widely. Henry’s work was the subject of a major retrospective in 2007 at the Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, and in 2009 at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho. In 2001 she received a Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists, and in 2006 she received the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement from Artist Trust. Her work can be found in museums throughout the Northwest and at the IIT Institute of Design, Chicago.