About Mary DeNeale Morgan

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    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...

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