Married to fellow The New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn.
On December 3, 1971, after having been missing for two days, Petty was found on Wards Island, New York, badly beaten and incoherent. She was left with the "mental capacity of a three year old" and lived the remainder of her life in a nursing home.
Images of American Folio Company prints courtesy Chris Ware.
Mary Petty, from her 1918 high school yearbook
:: This Petty Place (1945) (inscribed) ::
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Good-bye Mr. Chippendale (1944) (Petty, illustrator)
East of Fifth (1948) (A novel by Alan Dunn, signed by him and by Petty)