Sarah Mabel Pugh
Her Work
Paintings and Woodcuts
The Library of Congress holds one of her prints called "Swimming Hole." They also hold one of her woodcuts called "Sarah's Piano." Sarah's Piano was awarded a prize in the Tenth Exhibition of the Southern States Art League. Reviewing a show of American block prints at the Brooklyn Museum in 1929, William B. McCormick described the woodcut as "a characteristic example of a first rate subject and a very effective composition" (New York American, May 5, 1929).
Peace College Archives owns reprints of both "Sarah's Piano" and "Swimming Hole." They hang in the Archives Room to your left as you enter.
Peace College owns several of Mabel Pugh's block prints. They are:
Near the Rialto (Venice)
The City (Raleigh)
Bruton Parish (Williamsburg)
The History Place in Morehead City, North Carolina, holds a few of Mabel Pugh's oil paintings. They are:
Books
Mabel Pugh wrote and illustrated Little Carolina Bluebonnet NY: Crowell, 1933. It is the story of a little girl growing up in Morrisville, North Carolina. Peace College Archives owns a copy of this book.
She did cover prints and illustrations for the following books:
Mereahkovsky, Dmitri. Napolean the Man. Illus. Mabel Pugh. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1928.
Bowman, James Cloyd. The Adventures of Paul Bunyan. Illus. Mabel Pugh. The Century Co., 1927.
Adams, Julia Davis. Remember and Forget. Illus. Mabel Pugh. NY: E.P. Dutton, 1932.
Dark, Sidney. Twelve Royal Ladies. Illus. Mabel Pugh. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1929.
Dark, Sidney. Twelve Bad Men. Illus. Mabel Pugh. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1929. (owned by Peace College)
Laidler, Harry. The Road Ahead. Illus. Mabel Pugh. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1932 (owned by Peace College)
Sabin, Edwin L., Wild Men of the West. Illus. Mabel Pugh. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1929.
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