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Featured Artist - Mary
Ann Pope
Mary Ann Pope is originally from Louisville, Kentucky, where
she attended the Art Center, the University of Louisville, and
Cooper Union, New York, NY, all on scholarships. She has lived
in Huntsville, Alabama since 1966. The inspiration for the landscapes
she now paints, in oil, acrylic and watercolor, are from the
untrammeled land to be found in the mountains and valleys of
the South. Lately her paintings also reflect the travels she
has made in this country and abroad. Her work is shown in galleries
in Fayetteville, TN, Huntsville, AL and Montgomery, AL.
Several large oil/canvas diptychs, of southern
landscape were chosen for Voices Rising, an invitational exhibition
which began at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
D.C. and toured the Art Museums of Alabama from 2000-2005.
Her most recent awards for her work have been
in the Energen Exhibition 2009, National Watercolor Society's
National Exhibition, 2006, Watercolor USA Exhibition in 2008
and 2004, Watercolor Society of Alabama National Exhibition,
in 2000 and 1994, In the Aqueous Exhibition, Kentucky Watercolor
Society, 1999, and in the Grand National Exhibition, held at
the Mississippi Museum of Art in 1997.
Articles on her work in watercolor have been
featured in the issues of International Artist April/May 2008,
Watercolor, Winter 2007, International Artist June/July 2004,
Watercolor, Spring 2000 and Watercolor, Fall '92, published by
American Artist, and she is listed in Who's Who in American Art
as well as Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Her paintings
were published in the books, The Best of Watercolor, by Betty
Lou Schlemm and Tom Nicholas, published in December, 1995, Creative
Watercolor by Mary Ann Beckwith also published in 1995, Painting
Skies by Patricia Seligman, published 1997 and Splash 7, 2002
and Splash 8, 2004 by Rachel Rubin Wolf.
Many public and private collections throughout
the country have her paintings, in oil, acrylic and watercolor,
including the Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL., The
Huntsville Museum of Art, AL, the Mint Museum of Charlotte, N.C.,
The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO, and the Isabel
Anderson Comer Museum of Sylacauga, AL.
Corporations such as Zerox, Alabama Power,
Bell South, IBM, McGraw Hill, TVA and others have her work in
their collections as well.
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