Image Source: WIKIPEDIAALFRED GWYNNE MORANG
1901-1958
Alfred Morang grew up in Maine, learning to paint from the various artists who summered near his home. His formal education in the arts consisted of a MFA from Fremond University, where Alfred Morang studied in Caroll Tyson and Henry Snell.
Alfred Morang’s early career was marked by an artistic restlessness that drove him to create in many media, not all of them visual.
ALFRED GWYNNE MORANG BIOGRAPHY
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Alfred Morang was born in Maine, and studied music, painting, and literature in Boston, but returned to Portland, Maine. Although exhibiting his paintings in Boston, Morang concentrated on writing during this period and published several fictional works in the 1930's.
Tuberculosis necessitated a move to a drier climate, and he relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937. In Santa Fe, Morang's interest turned back to painting, and Morang became associated with the Transcendental Painting Group.
The group, whose founding members included Emil Bisttram, Raymond Jonson and William Lumpkins, focused on painting that transcended the sensory perceptions to that which was spiritual.
Alfred Morang died tragically in a fire in his Canyon Road studio in 1958.
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Oil on board
20 x 16 inches
Signed center left
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