Mary Chamot

Mary Chamot (8 November 1899 – 10 May 1993) was a Russian-born English art historian and museum curator, and the first woman curator at the Tate Gallery. Mary enrolled as a student at the Slade School of Fine Art and earned a Fine Art Diploma in 1922. Two monographs, both dedicated to the work of Goncharova, followed in 1972 and 1979. During the 1980s Mary Chamot was recognized as an authority on Russian avant-garde art and on the work of both Goncharova and Larionov in particular.

In her later years Mary Chamot lived at 57 Melbury Road, London W14 8AD. When the lease came up on the property in 1983 she moved at first to 6 Wyndham House, Sloane Square, London, SW1; then to Creswell House, 43-44 Cadogan Place, London, SW1X R9U and finally to 69 Oakwood Court, Addison Road, London W14 8JF. Her final move took place in 1989, when Chamot retired to Weald Hall, Wadhurst, East Sussex. She died there on 10 May 1993.

Publications English Medieval Enamels, Ernest Benn, London, 1930. Modern Painting in England, Country Life Ltd., London & Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1937. Painting in England from Hogarth to Whistler (1939) The Arts: Painting, The Graphic Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, Odhams Press, (1948) Russian Painting and Sculpture Pergamon Press, London (1963) (With Farr, D., & Butlin, M.), The Modern British Paintings, Drawings And Sculpture - Volumes I and II [Tate Gallery Catalogues], Oldbourne Press, London (1964) Turner: The Early Works, The Tate Gallery, London, 1965 Gontcharova, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris (1972) Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings, Oresko Books, London (1979)

Translations from the French Bazin, G., Italian Painting in the Xivth and Xvth Centuries, Hyperion Press, London, 1938. Lepage-Medvey, French Costumes, The Hyperion Press, London, Paris, New York, 1939. Reau, L., French Paintings in Xivth, Xvth and Xvith Centuries, Hyperion Press, London, 1939. Cassou, J., Picasso, The Hyperion Press, London, 1940. Lassaigne J., Toulouse Lautrec, The Hyperion Press, London, 1946.