Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe
2012Lewandowski, Stacia
272 pages (color)
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1906 Richmond, Maine - 1994. Known for: Non-objective painting, crafts, museum curator.
Born in Richmond, Maine, Dorothy Morang arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937 from Maine because of the need for her husband, Alfred Morang, to find a high, dry climate for his health. To that... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Maine, Dorothy Morang arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937 from Maine because of the need for her husband, Alfred Morang, to find a high, dry climate for his health. To that point, Dorothy had no formal art education, but in Santa Fe she took lessons from Ray Jonson. In 1940,... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Maine, Dorothy Morang arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937 from Maine because of the need for her husband, Alfred Morang, to find a high, dry climate for his health. To that point, Dorothy had no formal art education, but in Santa Fe she took lessons from Ray Jonson. In 1940, she joined the Federal Art Project* under the supervision of Vernon Hunter. To qualify, she had to pass a painting test, and she succeeded with her submission of a portrait from photographs of... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Maine, Dorothy Morang arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937 from Maine because of the need for her husband, Alfred Morang, to find a high, dry climate for his health. To that point, Dorothy had no formal art education, but in Santa Fe she took lessons from Ray Jonson. In 1940, she joined the Federal Art Project* under the supervision of Vernon Hunter. To qualify, she had to pass a painting test, and she succeeded with her submission of a portrait from photographs of Archbishop Lamy. In the Project, she was transferred to help tint maps at the National Park Service, and then served as secretary to Vernon Hunter. When her work with the WPA was discontinued, she went to work for the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, first... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Maine, Dorothy Morang arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937 from Maine because of the need for her husband, Alfred Morang, to find a high, dry climate for his health. To that point, Dorothy had no formal art education, but in Santa Fe she took lessons from Ray Jonson. In 1940, she joined the Federal Art Project* under the supervision of Vernon Hunter. To qualify, she had to pass a painting test, and she succeeded with her submission of a portrait from photographs of Archbishop Lamy. In the Project, she was transferred to help tint maps at the National Park Service, and then served as secretary to Vernon Hunter. When her work with the WPA was discontinued, she went to work for the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, first as a secretary and then in 1945 as Curator of the Art Gallery and then for many years as Curator of Fine Arts in charge of t... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArt for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Editor: Spanierman Gallery64 pages (color)America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
2000
(Exhibition catalog)Spanierman Gallery56 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesTreasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995Flynn, Kathryn A320 pages (color)Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all)304 pages (color)The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Bermingham, Peter67 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesRepresentative Art and Artists of New Mexico
1976
(Exhibition catalog)School of American Research41 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesHandbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art192 pages (color)Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973Collins, Jim L.426 pagesArtists of Santa Fe: Their Works and Words
1959Wenzell, C R50 pages