Dorothy Morang

Dorothy Alden Morang was born in Bridgton, Maine on November 24, 1906, the daughter of Allen and Bertha Ingalls (Green) Clark. Her early formal study was in music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Morang was mainly self-taught in painting. She received advice on painting from Raymond Johnson and Alfred Morang, whom she married on June 13, 1930. She also took a class in Dynamic Symmetry with Emil Bisttram. Morang came to New Mexico in 1937 with Alfred Morang due to a doctor's recommendation that Alfred needed a higher, drier climate for his health. She joined the Federal Art Project in 1940, where she worked as an easel painter and tinted maps for the National Park Service, before working on the Federal Music Program as a senior music teacher of piano and music appreciation from December 1941 to January 1942. She then worked for the Museum of New Mexico in a variety of positions from 1942 – 1967 and was an active member of the Santa Fe Women Artists Exhibiting Group. She divorced Alfred Morang in 1950, and was remarried 15 years later to John C. Emmett. She died at the age of 88 years on December 19, 1994.