Draft:Nan Montgomery
American artist
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Nan Montgomery is an American visual artist, specializing in painting and abstraction and is associated with the Washington Color School art movement.[1] Committed to purity of form, spatial relationships, and color, her work is unified in the dichotomies of natural and material, restriction and freedom, hard edge and soft.
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Montgomery was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1935 and grew up in Walpole, New Hampshire. Montgomery attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts (1954-1957), majoring in printmaking, until 1957 when she transferred to Yale University School of Art (1957-1960) where she majored in painting with Josef Albers and graduated in 1960. She continued her studies in the mid 1970s, enrolling in the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design (1975-1977) in Washington, D.C., studying with Washington Color School pioneers including Anne Truitt, Gene Davis, and Leon Berkowitz.[2]
Montgomery began regularly exhibiting in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore from the 1980s on, with recurring solo and group exhibitions at C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Osuna Gallery (Washington, D.C.), and Addison/Ripley Fine Art (Washington, D.C.), amongst others, and significant surveys and solo exhibitions at The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, such as Catalyst: 35 Years of the Washington Project for the Arts (2010)[3], Washington Art Matters (2014)[4], Nan Montgomery: Opposite and Alternate (2013)[5], and the retrospective Nan Montgomery: Counterpoint (2022) curated by Virginia Mecklenburg.[6] [7]
Montgomery’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden[8]; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; the Corcoran Legacy Collection at The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center; and The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, amongst others.[9] She is represented by Sebastian Gladstone (New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA) with whom she has presented the solo exhibition Diametric Abstractions (2025; New York, NY) and a solo presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach (2025; Miami, FL).[10]