Big Sur
Type:Painting
Size:24.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Mary DeNeale Morgan ART FOR SALE
1868 San Francisco, California - 1948 Carmel, California. Known for: Landscape, marine and portrait painting.
OLD CARMEL. by Connie Wright. Mary DeNeale Morgan --. "horse and buggy artist". M. DeNeale Morgan, as she signed her work, was one of Carmel's distinguished plein air painters--a generous spirit who... Read full biography
OLD CARMEL. by Connie Wright. Mary DeNeale Morgan --. "horse and buggy artist". M. DeNeale Morgan, as she signed her work, was one of Carmel's distinguished plein air painters--a generous spirit who worked tirelessly for various Carmel civic groups. Her mother's family emigrated from Scotland to... Read full biography
OLD CARMEL. by Connie Wright. Mary DeNeale Morgan --. "horse and buggy artist". M. DeNeale Morgan, as she signed her work, was one of Carmel's distinguished plein air painters--a generous spirit who worked tirelessly for various Carmel civic groups. Her mother's family emigrated from Scotland to the Monterey area in 1856, homesteading a ranch near Point Piños and then in the Salinas Valley. It was partly because of her family's stories about the beauty of the Monterey Peninsula that DeNeale... Read full biography
OLD CARMEL. by Connie Wright. Mary DeNeale Morgan --. "horse and buggy artist". M. DeNeale Morgan, as she signed her work, was one of Carmel's distinguished plein air painters--a generous spirit who worked tirelessly for various Carmel civic groups. Her mother's family emigrated from Scotland to the Monterey area in 1856, homesteading a ranch near Point Piños and then in the Salinas Valley. It was partly because of her family's stories about the beauty of the Monterey Peninsula that DeNeale Morgan came here to live and work. Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San... Read full biography
OLD CARMEL. by Connie Wright. Mary DeNeale Morgan --. "horse and buggy artist". M. DeNeale Morgan, as she signed her work, was one of Carmel's distinguished plein air painters--a generous spirit who worked tirelessly for various Carmel civic groups. Her mother's family emigrated from Scotland to the Monterey area in 1856, homesteading a ranch near Point Piños and then in the Salinas Valley. It was partly because of her family's stories about the beauty of the Monterey Peninsula that DeNeale Morgan came here to live and work. Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San Francisco and studied with Emil Carlsen and Amédée Joullin until 1890. She paid her fir... Read full biography
Mary DeNeale Morgan - Art for Sale (10 available)
Monterey Cypress (untitled)
Type:Painting
Size:14.20" x 11.50"
Medium:Gouache
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
The late Robert Beck handled her estate and there is an authentication label verso. It was said when Morgan died many of her paintings were found unsigned. Beck was known for handling her work.
"Cypress by the Sea"
Type:Painting
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Once asked if she didn't tire of painting trees, Morgan answered that "she would stick by her cypress trees till they sink into the sea, or - what is just as tragic and final - be hopelessly built round." Only four days before her death, she was at Point Lobos painting a cypress.
Near Palm Canyon
Type:Painting
Size:25.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
South of Carmel
Type:Painting
Year:1920s
Size:10.50" x 12.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Estate Stamp
Notes:
Bright & has a lot of POP! Charming Morgan with family authentication letter on reverse from artist's niece, Dana Morgan Sr in 1997.
Farm with Eucalyptus
Type:Painting
Size:25.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Cypress, Monterey Coast
Type:Painting
Year:1930s
Size:24.00" x 40.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
A gift from Morgan to a store clerk who fixed her radio in the 1930s. When Morgan tried to pay him, he would not accept the money, so she presented him with this, one of her finest and largest paintings. Painting has descended in that man's family. First time on the market. In its original wood frame.
"Carmel Sand Dunes"
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1912
Size:12.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Tempera
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Signed lower left Titled on reverse Retains original Gump's frame Her medium of choice was tempera which was well suited to her early tonalist style, depicting the luminosity and softness in the northern California landscape.
Wild Flower Trail - Pt. Lobos
Type:Painting
Year:c.1925
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Titled on reverse.
"Boats - Monterey Bay"
Type:Painting
Size:16.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Morgan died in Carmel, California leaving a great legacy to California art as a teacher, organizer, and painter. Working in pastel, tempera, oil, and watercolor, she painted sand dunes, wharf scenes, adobes, landscapes, and the wind-swept cypresses of the Monterey Peninsula.