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Mary Bayard Morgan Wootten

Mary Bayard Morgan Wootten (1876 - 1959) was active/lived in South Carolina, North Carolina.  Mary Wootten is known for Botanical, genre, aerial and figure photography, painting.

MARY BAYARD MORGAN WOOTTEN (1876-1959)

Both women artists and the burgeoning genre of photography struggled to gain acceptance in the early decades of the twentieth century. In defiance of these obstacles, Bayard Wootten forged a successful career with her camera, creating over 600,000 images during her lifetime. A native of New Bern, a small town on the coast of North Carolina, Mary Bayard Morgan attended the local Collegiate Academy and enrolled in 1892 at the State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), just one year after its founding as an institution of higher learning for women. Financial exigency forced her to take teaching positions, first at the Arkansas School for the Deaf in Little Rock, followed by four years as an art instructor at the Georgia School for the Deaf. While there, she married Charles Wootten with whom she had two sons; four year later, in 1901, Charles abandoned the family. Divorced and financially res   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5667 characters.]  Artist bio

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