Maud Morgan
| Maud Morgan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 1, 1903 New York City, New York, USA |
| Died | March 14, 1999 (aged 96) Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | in museums: |
| Spouse(s) | Patrick Morgan (m. 1931; div. 1970) |
Maud (Cabot) Morgan (March 1, 1900 – March 14, 1999) was an American modern artist and teacher who is best known for her abstract expressionism. She mentored Frank Stella and Carl Andre, and had art pieces shown alongside such notable contemporaries as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Morgan's life began in New York City to an aristocratic family. She was also known as Boston's Modernist Doyenne.
She died from complications resulting from pneumonia in 1999.
Maud Cabot grew up in New York City, where she graduated from Miss Chapin's School in 1921 She then attended Barnard College. Upon graduating, she moved to Paris to study at The Sorbonne. She travelled throughout the world and met such notable people as Mahatma Gandhi, and travelled Europe with the likes of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. She later travelled to Russia to witness and experience communism, and came back to Paris, where she met her husband, Patrick Morgan, an American contemporary artist, whose influence encouraged her to paint. Her marriage to Pat Morgan took place in a lawyer's office on a snowy day in New York in 1931. She wasn't very interested in getting married, and thus wanted to minimize the importance of the occasion. Together they moved back to New York City. She absolutely loved living in New York and she could see herself building and continuing her life there.
In 1938, Morgan showed her first exhibit, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Whitney Gallery purchased some of her works. Just as her career was blooming, she decided to move with her husband to Andover Massachusetts, where he had acquired a teaching position. As a woman artist working in a Boston suburb, away from the New York spotlight, Morgan's chances for serious recognition became severely reduced.
In an 1996 interview in the Boston Globe, Morgan confirmed that she believed her move to Andover sorely undermined the possibility of becoming recognized.
"I was in just the right hot spot. I think I could have made it into--I'm not saying the top echelon--but I could have made . . . a certain kind of fame."
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