SARAH MABLE PUGH (1891-1986). A versatile artist who was comfortable working in a range of media that included woodblock prints, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, Mabel Pugh was born in... Read full biography
SARAH MABLE PUGH (1891-1986). A versatile artist who was comfortable working in a range of media that included woodblock prints, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, Mabel Pugh was born in Morrisville, North Carolina, and graduated in 1913 from the nearby all-women’s college, Peace Institute, in... Read full biography
SARAH MABLE PUGH (1891-1986). A versatile artist who was comfortable working in a range of media that included woodblock prints, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, Mabel Pugh was born in Morrisville, North Carolina, and graduated in 1913 from the nearby all-women’s college, Peace Institute, in Raleigh. She moved to New York City to attend classes at the Art Students League and Columbia University, before being awarded a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in... Read full biography
SARAH MABLE PUGH (1891-1986). A versatile artist who was comfortable working in a range of media that included woodblock prints, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, Mabel Pugh was born in Morrisville, North Carolina, and graduated in 1913 from the nearby all-women’s college, Peace Institute, in Raleigh. She moved to New York City to attend classes at the Art Students League and Columbia University, before being awarded a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The esteemed figure painter Charles Hawthorne was among her instructors at the institution, where her achievements were recognized in 1919 with a prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship to tour and study in Europe. After returning to... Read full biography
SARAH MABLE PUGH (1891-1986). A versatile artist who was comfortable working in a range of media that included woodblock prints, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, Mabel Pugh was born in Morrisville, North Carolina, and graduated in 1913 from the nearby all-women’s college, Peace Institute, in Raleigh. She moved to New York City to attend classes at the Art Students League and Columbia University, before being awarded a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The esteemed figure painter Charles Hawthorne was among her instructors at the institution, where her achievements were recognized in 1919 with a prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship to tour and study in Europe. After returning to New York, Pugh fared successfully as a professional artist, particularly in the area of book illustration. Her woodblock prints and... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (13)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018
Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index