1. Maud Morgan was an American modern artist and teacher who is best known for her abstract expressionism.
11 Facts About Maud Morgan
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Maud Morgan mentored Frank Stella and Carl Andre, and had art pieces shown alongside such notable contemporaries as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
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Maud Morgan died from complications resulting from pneumonia in 1999.
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Maud Morgan Cabot grew up in New York City, where she graduated from The Ethel Walker School in 1921.
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Maud Morgan travelled throughout the world and met such notable people as Mahatma Gandhi, and travelled Europe with the likes of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.
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Maud Morgan 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.
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Maud Morgan absolutely loved living in New York and she could see herself building and continuing her life there.
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In 1938, Maud Morgan showed her first exhibit, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Whitney Gallery purchased some of her works.
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Maud Morgan exhibited at the Margaret Brown Gallery in Boston.
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In 1995, at the age of 92, Maud published her autobiography, "Morgan's Journey: A Life from Art".
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In 1987, Maud Morgan earned an award from the Women's Caucus for Art.