Mary Shand

Artist Mary Shand Rule was born Mary Heyward Shand August 8, 1929, in Columbia, South Carolina, where she was largely raised. She spent two years at Stratford College in Danville, Virginia, and 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). That same year she married Julian Rule, after which they lived briefly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and finally in Arlington, Virginia. The couple had three children whom Mary supported through teaching art in the public schools. In the 1960s she returned for further study at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC and at 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, in which she won the Best of 1981 Award. Her artwork is in many private residences throughout the U.S. and is in several public collections including the Wofford College, South Carolina, among others. She studied at the University of Virginia and Corcoran School of Art.