Deborah Morrissey-McGoff
Deborah Morrissey McGoff (1955-2022) was an exceptional painter, devoting herself to achieving technical mastery of the medium in a career spanning over forty years. Her enigmatic narrative landscapes merged traditional painting methods with contemporary and personal themes unique to her vision. Exquisitely executed, these paintings pay homage to artists who span centuries of landscape painting from the Italian Renaissance to the Hudson River School.
With her paintings, she emphasized our connection to nature through astute observations that captured the beauty and power of landscape as an emotional and dramatic messenger. Sanctuary pays tribute to Deborah’s extraordinary journey as a painter with a survey of her work over four decades documenting her admiration of landscape as a guiding force for her prolific output and continual evolution as an artist.
Deborah Morrissey-McGoff earned a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Cincinnati in 1977. During her accomplished career as an artist, she developed an extensive exhibition history that included botregional and national venues. A major exhibition of her paintings was presented at the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio in 1997. She was the recipient of numerous grants and awards including an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in 1991 and 1996, an Arts Midwest Fellowship in 1990, and a Summerfair Individual Artist Grant in 1984 and 1992. Her paintings are represented in major private and corporate collections.