MARY BARTOW Obituary

Name: Memorial service for MARY BARTOW
Start: 2022-09-09T15:00:00.000Z
Location: Church of the Heavenly Rest

BARTOW--Mary Wilton Sechrist, of Manhattan and Millbrook, NY, died on August 12th after a brief illness. After graduating from Smith College, she spent her entire career at Sotheby's, where she was Global Head of the Print Department and recognized as one of the world's leading experts in impressionist, modern, and contemporary prints. In addition to her husband of 41 years, Francis D. Bartow II, she is survived by her brother, Stephen S. Sechrist III, sister, Hannah Sechrist Burns (Joseph); nieces Mary Wilton Newton Burns, Hannah Diane Sechrist Burns, Madeleine Bartow Morris, and nephew and Godson Philip K. Bartow III. A memorial service will be held on September 9th at 11am at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in Manhattan. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Dutchess County SPCA, www.dcspca.org

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Published by New York Times from Aug. 18 to Aug. 21, 2022.

Memories and Condolences
for MARY BARTOW

9 Entries

Dresden Drake Scott

September 13, 2022

My sincere condolences to the Bartow -Sechrist families. May your memories bring you comfort and strength. Loved Mary´s Facebook humor. Franklin King `78 forever.

Albertina Shapiro

September 9, 2022

Our deepest condolences to Frank and the Family.
I met Mary and Frank thru my husband Paul who knows them a long time. Mary was a beautiful and loving soul.
Albertina and Paul Shapiro

Ann Gilkerson

September 9, 2022

Mary was a Smith College classmate and like some other friends below we reconnected on social media. We were both art history majors, and her discerning eye and broad intellectual curiosity were already apparent, as was her passion for art. I treasure the several visits we had when I was in New York years later. Other gifts included a genuine concern for her many friends, generosity with her time, and a wonderful sense of humor. I will never forget her enthusiastic tour of Sotheby's! I join her family, colleagues and multitude of friends in mourning an exceptional person.

Mee-Seen Loong

September 4, 2022

If I am not there ( jury duty imposes) on the 9th to join the large gathering of family, friends and colleagues to remember a much admired and loved friend, please count me in. I worked with Mary for decades and think or her as one of the very rare specialists who shared their knowledge and enthusiasm. We were there at a special time, a kind of art Camelot, with colleagues chasing whatever was the holy grail of our specialty...crazed and overwhelmed with deadlines but for the most part loving the art. Mary was core to this with her brilliance, patience and humor and I treasure my moments with her . Mee-Seen Loong.

Nell Riviere-Platt

September 2, 2022

I am heartbroken at the news of Mary´s untimely departure. I like Terry below, and others, knew Mary from our shared years in Franklin King House at Smith College. We reconnected via Facebook in 2010, and saw one another every time our family visited New York. Mary had a rare gift for friendship, even raising it to an art form. She made each of us feel that we were truly interesting to her - no matter what our lives - and not only the legion of us who considered her a close friend, but our spouses, our children, even our pets. Mary cared deeply about all of it. We shared interests in 15th-16th c Northern Renaissance painters and printers, a field of focus for Mary during her graduate studies. I´ll never forget her excitement discussing an extremely rare Durer map of the stars that was coming to auction within her professional sphere - but then everything was interesting to Mary. My heart goes out to her adored nieces, her beloved sister, her Sotheby´s colleagues, and above all to Frank. Mary will always have a place in my heart. I am forever grateful for our rekindled friendship in recent years.

Terry Gilman

August 23, 2022

My deepest condolences to Mary's family and friends.
I knew Mary from Franklin King House. "Even then," Mary was deeply thoughtful and highly knowledgeable about art, art history, and history in general. She was caringly curious about all of us around her, delighting in our diversity of quirks and strengths and their combinations, perhaps as if we were artworks. We reconnected on social media, sharing especially a love of trees but also being loving and devoted aunts. I know I join many people in being profoundly grateful to have known Mary. May her memory inspire us.

Elizabeth Tozer Zibby

August 21, 2022

I treasured my friendship with Mary. I adored her! This is very very sad news.
My love to Frank.
ZIbby Tozer

Mrs Robert Skold

August 18, 2022

I knew Mary for as long as she lived. I was friends with her parents in York PA and kept in touch with Mary. My condolences to Frank and her family. Her godmother Louise Wilton Bupp lives at the same retirement home where I am and I saw two of Mary's cousins today when they visited their mother. Another day has passed!

Brigid O'Brien

August 18, 2022

Glad to have met you!

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