Morgan, Mary Deneale (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1868-1948)

Mary DeNeale Morgan was born in San Francisco in 1868. In her youth she was a pupil of the painter William Keith, until his death in 1911. She also studied at the Oakland School of Design and briefly taught art at Oakland High School, while maintaining her own studio. In 1909 she moved to Carmel, where she lived the rest of her life. She studied with William Merritt Chase in the summer of 1914 and was the director of the Carmel School of Art from 1917-1925. She was a founding member of the Carmel Art Association. As a painter Morgan worked primarily in pastel, tempura, oil, and watercolor. She was noted for her paintings of sand dunes , adobes, landscapes, and the cypress trees of the Monterey Peninsula. She attained a national reputation and was cited as one of the country's "foremost women painters" by Scribner's magazine in 1928.

From the description of Drawings of Historic Monterey 1936-1937. (Monterey Public Library). WorldCat record id: 123081967