Mary Ogden Abbott

Mary Ogden Abbott (October 12, 1894 – May 11, 1981) was an American wood carving and line drawing artist, world traveler, equestrian and an early Grand Canyon River runner.

[3][4] From 1922 to 1927, the two women traveled to Java, Singapore, Hong Kong, Baghdad, Jerusalem, rode across Peloponnese on horseback, and made their way by automobile through Europe.

In 1949 she floated the Colorado River in Grand Canyon with Norman Nevills from Phantom Ranch to Lake Mead.

Abbott joined river runner Otis R. Marston, Frank E. Masland, and National Park Service Chief of Interpretation John E. Doerr on a slickrock journey north of Navajo Mountain in September of 1957.

Abbott's drawings appeared in the Appalachian Mountain Club journal Appalachia and books on travel.

[2][9] Abbott also provided the illustrations for George Cory Franklin's Wild Animals of the Five Rivers Country, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1947.

[10] In its review, The New York Times wrote "Mary Abbott's spirited illustrations capture the lithe grace of these wild creatures in many of their tensest moments.

Mary Ogden Abbott carved these two teak doors. They were installed in the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC, in 1976. They flanked the entrance to the National Park Service (NPS) Director's 3100 corridor. In 2018, the NPS was instructed to move out of that corridor to make way for the Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs - the doors, however, remained.
In September, 1957, Mary Ogden Abbott explored Glen Canyon by horse.
This bronze memorial plaque for Norman and Doris Nevills was cast by Mary Ogden Abbott in 1951. The plaque was installed near the west abutment of Navajo Bridge in 1952, where it has remained to this day.