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<span style="color:#006400">'''ABBOTT, Meredith Brooks'''</span> (b. 1938), fourth of five children to San Miguel Island lessee, [[BROOKS, Robert Larkin|Robert Larkin Brooks]]. "Kai", as she has been known since childhood to her friends, became an accomplished professional artist, whose landscape paintings are widely collected.
<span style="color:#006400">'''ABBOTT, Meredith Brooks'''</span> (b. 1938), fourth of five children to San Miguel Island lessee, [[BROOKS, Robert Larkin|Robert Larkin Brooks]]. "Kai", as she has been known since childhood to her friends, became an accomplished professional artist, whose landscape paintings are widely collected.
She married Duncan Abbott in 1967 and they had  3 children: twins, Robert (writer; UCSB) and William (Wesleyan, CT) —twins; and daughter Whitney (b. 1972).





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ABBOTT, Meredith Brooks (b. 1938), fourth of five children to San Miguel Island lessee, Robert Larkin Brooks. "Kai", as she has been known since childhood to her friends, became an accomplished professional artist, whose landscape paintings are widely collected.

She married Duncan Abbott in 1967 and they had 3 children: twins, Robert (writer; UCSB) and William (Wesleyan, CT) —twins; and daughter Whitney (b. 1972).


  • Meredith Brooks [Abbott] (1938- )
Oral History Interview with Meredith Brooks Abbott


  • 1991. Klein, Hilary Dole. Meredith Brooks Abbott Art of California 4(1) January 1991. p. 23-27
[original in SCIF archives]



IN THE COLLECTION OF THE SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION: [measurements are height x width; sight]


  • [unnamed] (Fennel by Bosque Cabrillo, Prisoners' Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, 1988?)
oil on board
10-¼ x 13-¼"
  • [unnamed] [Chapel] n.d.
oil on linen
8-¾" x 11-¾"
  • The Old Slaughterhouse, Santa Cruz Island 1991
oil on linen
12-3/4" x 8-¾""
  • Road Through the Creek Bottom, Santa Cruz Island October 1988
oil on board
12" x 16"
  • Stanton Ranch
oil on canvas
14-½" x 20"