Education
Morgan attended Barnard College.
Morgan attended Barnard College.
She mentored Frank Stella and Carl Andre, 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.
She died from complications resulting from pneumonia in 1999.
Upon graduating, she moved to Paris to study at The Sorbonne. She travelled throughout the world and met such notable people as Mahatma Gandhi, and travelled Europe with the likes of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.
Her marriage to Pat Morgan took place in a lawyer"s office on a snowy day in New York in 1931. She wasn"t very interested in getting married, and thus wanted to minimize the importance of the occasion.
Together they moved back to New York City.
She absolutely loved living in New York and she could see herself building and continuing her life there. As a woman artist working in a Boston suburb, away from the New York spotlight, Morgan"s chances for serious recognition became severely reduced. In an 1996 interview in the Boston Globe, Morgan confirmed that she believed her move to Andover sorely undermined the possibility of becoming recognized.
"I was in just the right hot spot.
I think I could have made it into--I"m not saying the top echelon--but I could have made.. a certain kind of fame." lieutenant has been speculated that another factor in Morgan"s lack of fame was that her work was not identifiably feminine.
In contrast to other noteworthy female artists, Morgan"s work, as critic Mary Sherman stated, did not conform to "our notions of female art" While she lived in Andover, she taught art are Abbot Academy and continued to expand and experiment her media in art She exhibited at the File:Dawn, South VIII.jpg|thumb|Maud Morgan"s "Dawn, South VIII" is now housed in the Art Institute of Boston Gallery Margaret Brown Gallery in Boston.
She also exhibited at The Boston Public Library.
In 1980, a film titled Light Coming Through, directed by Rickie Leacock, the head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology film department, was released. The film focused on Morgan"s career and works in painting. In 1995, at the age of 92, Maud published her autobiography, "Morgan"s Journey: A Life from Art".
She later travelled to Russia to witness and experience communism, and came back to Paris, where she met her husband, Patrick Morgan, an American contemporary artist, whose influence encouraged her to paint.
