Mabel Pugh
{{short description|American painter}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1891}}
| birth_place = Morrisville, North Carolina, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1986|1891}}
| death_place = Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
| nationality = American
| education = Art Students League of New York, Pennsylvania Academy
| field = Illustration, Portraits
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Mabel Pugh (1891–1986) was an art teacher, painter, woodblock printmaker and illustrator.
Early life and education
Born in Morrisville, North Carolina, she studied at the Art Students League, the Pennsylvania Academy as well as with Charles W. Hawthorne. As the winner of the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1919, she sketched throughout Europe for four months.{{cite web|url=http://galleryc.net/artists/mabel-pugh/#.VPtioPnF98E|title=Mabel Pugh artwork, bio and more|work=Gallery C|accessdate=23 May 2015}}
Career
Pugh then established her professional career in New York, contributing illustrations to McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, The Forum and Survey Graphic. Her exhibition awards include Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1920 and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1934. At the first New York World's Fair, Pugh showed the painting My Mother. Her work was represented in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design in 1932, National Academy of Women Artists in 1934/35, and the Pennsylvania Print Club from 1929 to 1931. She was both the author and illustrator of Little Carolina Bluebonnet, a 1933 Thomas Y. Crowell Co. publication. Her best known work is her floral map of North Carolina.{{cite web|url=http://portcitydaily.com/2014/03/28/while-local-brand-remains-in-works-state-developing-its-own/|title=While local brand remains in works, state developing its own|work=Port City Daily|accessdate=23 May 2015}} Three portraits, of Clifford Hope,{{cite web|url=http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/28921?ret=True|title=Clifford Ragsdale Hope – US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|publisher=|accessdate=24 February 2017}} Harold D. Cooley,{{cite web|url=http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/28924?ret=True|title=Harold Dunbar Cooley – US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|publisher=|accessdate=24 February 2017}} and Herbert Bonner,{{cite web|url=http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/29081?ret=True|title=Herbert Covington Bonner – US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|publisher=|accessdate=24 February 2017}} are in the collection of the United States House of Representatives. In 1936, Pugh returned to her alma mater, teaching at Peace College in Raleigh until her retirement in 1960.James, A., & Reed, D. (1999). Southern women painters 1880–1940: The collection of A. Everette James, Jr. and Nancy Jane Farmer : The Four Sisters Gallery : Celebrating the art of the Coastal Plain : October 21, 1999 – February 25, 2000. Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College.{{cite web|url=http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/manuscripts/html/Mss188.htm|title=Finding Aid for the Mabel Pugh Papers, 1988–1999 and undated|work=uncg.edu|accessdate=23 May 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://thejohnsoncollection.org/mabel-pugh/|title=Mabel Pugh :: The Johnson Collection, LLC (Spartanburg, SC)|work=The Johnson Collection, LLC (Spartanburg, SC)|accessdate=23 May 2015}}
Her home at Morrisville, the Pugh House, which she sold in 1958, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20140703.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-07-03|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 6/16/14 through 6/27/14 |publisher=National Park Service}}{{Cite web | author = Sybil H. Argintar | title =Pugh House | work = National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory | date = September 2013| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA4868.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-06-01}}
Gallery of works
File:Near the Rialto, Venice SAAM-2020.4.11 1.jpg|Near the Rialto, Venice, ca. 1923-1926
File:Young Tourist SAAM-2020.4.13 1.jpg|Young Tourist, ca. 1923-1926
References
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External links
- [https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mss00033 Guide to the Mabel Pugh Song Lyrics circa 1907-1915]
{{American woodblock printers}}
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Category:Painters from North Carolina
Category:People from Morrisville, North Carolina
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American women illustrators
Category:20th-century American illustrators
Category:American women printmakers
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
Category:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni