Maud (Cabot) Morgan | |
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Born | New York City, New York, USA | March 1, 1903
Died | March 14, 1999 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | (aged 96)
Known for | Painting |
Notable work | in museums: |
Spouse |
Patrick Morgan
(m. 1931; div. 1970) |
Maud (Cabot) Morgan (March 1, 1903 – March 14, 1999)[1] was an American modern artist and teacher who is best known for her abstract expressionism. She mentored Frank Stella and Carl Andre,[2] and had art pieces shown alongside such notable contemporaries as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Morgan's life began in New York City to an aristocratic family. She was also known as Boston's Modernist Doyenne.[3]
She died from complications resulting from pneumonia in 1999.[4]