Biografie von Sarah Mabel PUGH (1891-1986)

Birth place: Morrisville, NC

Death place: Raleigh, NC

Addresses: Raleigh, NC; Morrisville, NC; NYC

Profession: Educator, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, writer, lecturer

Studied: ASL; PAFA (Cresson traveling scholarship, 1919; fellowship, PAFA); Columbia Univ.; North Carolina State Col., and with Hawthorne, Adams, Martin; NAWA; SSAL.

Exhibited: NC State Fair, 1922 (prize); S. Indp. A., 1929; SSAL, 1930 (prize); Southern Printmakers (prize); Mint Mus. Art (prize); Plastic Cl., Phila., 1926 (gold); NC State Fed. Women's Cl., 1937-39 (prize, each yr.); NAD, 1932; PAFA Ann., 1933; LOC, 1943-44; NAWA, 1934-35 (prize), 1939; AAPL; NC Artists; Kansas City AI.

Member: CAA; NC State Art Soc.

Work: LOC; NC State Garden Cl.; Waynesville Court House; Peace Col. Lib.; portraits Franklin Community Center; Dir. Room, Insurance Bldg., Raleigh; White Mem. Presbyterian Church, Raleigh; John Marshall House, Richmond; Chatham Hospital; Cary H.S. Agricultural Com. Room, House of Representatives, Wash., DC; Marine & Fisheries Committee Room, House Representatives, Wash., DC; Warren County Mem. Lib., Queens College, Charlotte, NC

Comments: Position: head, art dept., Peace College, Raleigh, NC, 1936-. Author/illustrator: Little Carolina Bluebonnet", 1933; Illustrator: Century Co., Thomas Crowell Co., Doubleday Doran, E.P. Dutton Co., Ginn Co.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add'l info. courtesy Anthony R. White, Burlingame, CA."