Dorothy Morang (1906–1994) was an American painter, pastelist, and active aficionada of the Santa Fe art colony.
Dorothy Alden Clark was born in Bridgton, Maine upon November 24, 1906. Her in front formal examination was in music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and she taught piano throughout most of her life. She married artist/critic Alfred Morang June 13, 1930 and they moved to New Mexico in 1937 on a doctor’s recommendation that Alfred needed a higher, drier climate.
Primarily self-taught, Morang painted abstract easel paintings behind the WPA Art Project from 1939–41 and far along taught piano and music reaction for the Music Project. She was allied with the Transcendental Painting Group, but was not an certified member. Her artwork has been exhibited in New Mexico and nationally. Notably, her discharge duty was included in an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1940, and presented in solo exhibitions at Paneras Gallery, New York, New York, in 1963 and 1965. She next worked in a variety of positions at the New Mexico Museum of Art from 1942 through 1963, including Curator of Fine Arts. Her conduct yourself can be found in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Fine Art Museum and West Texas Teacher’s College Museum. In 1949 she helped found the Santa Fe Women Artists Exhibiting Group.
In 1950 Dorothy divorced Alfred Morang, and was remarried 15 years future to John C. Emmett. She died at the age of 88 upon December 19, 1994.
An Art Directory of New Mexico, compiled and edited by Reginald Fisher, Museum of New Mexico and School of American Research, 1947
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