Alfred Gwynne Morang ART FOR SALE

1901 Ellsworth, Maine - 1958 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape, genre, illustrator.

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Alfred Morang grew up in Maine, learning to paint from the various artists who summered near his home. His formal education in the arts consisted of a MFA from Fremond University, where Alfred Morang studied in Caroll Tyson and Henry Snell. Alfred Morang's early career was marked by an artistic restlessness that drove him to create in many media, not all of them visual. While living in Boston in the 1920s, Alfred Morang studied art and music, illustrated books and magazines, gave music lessons, and began work on a number of works of fiction, some of which would be published in the 1930s. In 1938 Alfred Morang contracted tuberculosis, which prompted a move to Santa Fe, NM, a climate more hospitable to a man in his condition. While he... Read full biography

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Untitled (Village Scene Ellsworth, Maine)

Type:Painting

Size:8.75" x 11.25"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Unsigned

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In the 1920s, Morang lived in Boston and worked as an artist, illustrator, music teacher and fiction writer. He married musician Dorothy Clark and moved to Portland, Maine, where he tutored music students and painted.

Price: SOLD

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Capilla, 1945

Type:Painting

Size:14.00" x 19.00"

Medium:Watercolor

Signed:Lower Right

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Many of Morang’s paintings are like a visual diary of Santa Fe in the 1940’s and 1950’s and have a raw sense that echo the city’s spirit at that time. Technically his paintings are informed by impressionism and postimpressionism, many painted thickly with a palette knife.

Price: SOLD