# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rita-deanin-abbey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:25:27.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rita-deanin-abbey"
name: "Rita Deanin Abbey"
slug: "rita-deanin-abbey"
description: "Rita Deanin Abbey was a multidisciplinary abstract artist and among the first art professors at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Born in New Jersey to Polish immigrants, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1965 to teach, living there for 56 years and contributing several large-scale public artworks. She was an artist-in-residence at the studios of many artists and institutions, had over 60 individual exhibitions, and participated in over 160 national and international group exhibitions."
tagline: "American artist and educator (1930-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bristlecone-pine-forest-janine-sprout.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-07-20"
deathDate: "2021-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.879374666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Deanin_Abbey"
    title: "Rita Deanin Abbey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%87"
    title: "ರೀಟಾ ಡೀನಿನ್ ಅಬ್ಬೇ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Deanin_Abbey"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106865831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations