Crawford, Margaret Louise, 1932-

Raleigh artist Margaret Crawford studied with Gregory Ivy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she earned her BFA and MFA degrees. She is a disciple of the modernist Bauhaus philosophy of art and she worked almost exclusively in the abstract mode. Her works are both geometric abstractions and biomorphic abstractions. Margaret was an expert printmaker, a skillful painter and an accomplished sculptor. Her entire professional life was dedicated to teaching art on the university level. She exhibited widely in Michigan and in Upstate New York where she has lived and she has a work in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art. She has shown previously in Raleigh at Lee Hansley Gallery and at the defunct Gilliam and Peden Gallery. In addition to amassing a huge body of her own work, Margaret Crawford was an astute collector of fine prints.