Mary Ammirato Collins

Mary Collins Ammirato (born April 3, 1908) was an artist and poet born in Hortense, Texas. She was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the USA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived with husband Claudio also an artist and composer in the Canary Islands, both who were long time friends of heiress Eleanor Post. Mary was a travel companion of Eleanor's and also a Ziegfeld Follies girl in New York City where she met Claudio. Mary has three surviving great nieces in America.

She wrote the libretto for her husband's opera, Paradise Lost (A comedy for Modern Times).