Susan Moore (NC, 1926-2013), Nude in a Landscape

Graphite on paper, signed with the artist's initials at lower right, inscribed to the verso "Accession #51 / Nude in a Landscape / by Sue Moore / Owned by Claude Howell" (in Claude Howell's hand), float mounted and framed under glass.

Sheet 6 x 9 7/8 in.; Frame dimensions 12 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.

Claude Howell, Wilmington North Carolina
Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Susan Moore was born in 1926 in Williamston, NC, later moving to Winston-Salem in 1936 and earning her bachelor's degree from Salem College. She attended a summer session at Black Mountain College in 1946, studying design with Josef Albers and painting with Jacob Lawrence. In 1964 she earned an MFA from UNC-Greensboro in painting and printmaking.

In the early 1960s, Moore met fellow artists Virginia Ingram, Ann Carter Pollard, and Anne Kesler Shields,
who worked together to organize, exhibit, and promote their work. Martha Dunigan joined the group in 1970, which came to be known as the Five Winston-Salem Printmakers. Moore taught printmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts in the School of Design and Production in the 1970s. She was a founding member of the Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine Arts (now the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), and was named Artist of the Year in 1997 by the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art.
(biography courtesy of UNC School of the Arts Archives)

Light toning to sheet; not examined out of the frame.