Artist Mary Shand Rule was born Mary Heyward Shand on August 8, 1929, in Columbia, South Carolina, where she was primarily raised. She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1950 with a degree in psychology and art (studying under Yaghjian and Augusta Rembert Wittkowsky Walsh and in the class with Jasper Johns). Mary supported her family by teaching art in public schools.
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In the 1960s, she returned for further study at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, and the University of Virginia. Mary died in Arlington of cancer in 2003.
She has exhibited her artwork in group exhibitions, including the Keane Mason Gallery, NY, where she won the Best of 1981 Award. Her artwork is in many private residences throughout the U.S. and several public collections, including the Wofford College, South Carolina, among others.
