Margaret Graham Kranking

American Watercolorist

Brisk Day, Oxford
Watercolor 22 x 30

Brisk Day, Sausalito
Watercolor 20 x 30

Monhegan Light Station

Southwest Harbor

Margaret Graham Kranking

Professional Biography

Selected Exhibitions include:

The Florence Museum South Carolina- A Retrospective,
The Washington County Museum, Maryland,
Belle Grove Plantation Middletown, Virginia
Shada Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland,
Academy Art Museum Easton, Maryland,
Sumner School Museum, Washington, DC,
American University, Washington, DC,
Glenview Mansion Art Gallery, Rockville, Maryland.

Juried Professional Signature Memberships in Watercolor Societies

Alabama, Baltimore, Georgia, Houston, Kentucky, Midwest, National,
Southern, Southwestern,Washington. and Western Colorado Watercolor Societies; Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, and Potomac Valley Watercolorists (President 1981-83)

Selected Bibliography:

Christine Unwin. The Artistic Touch 1, 11 and Ill.
Creative Art Press, 1995, 1999. Charles Sullivan.
Numbers at Play, Rizzoli. Carl Schmalz.
Finding and Improving Your Painting Style. Watson-Guptill, 1986.
Mary Ann Beckwith, Creative Watercolor. Rockport Publisher, 1995.
Phil Metzger. The North Light Artist's Guide to Materials & Techniques. 1996
"The Watercolor Page." American Artist Magazine, May 1998.
Ginny Baier. "The Color Gray." Watercolor 91, Spring Issue.
Ginny Baier. "The Color White." Watercolor 95, Fall Issue.
North Light Magazine, July 1990 and March 1997. Color.
An American Artist Publication, 1999.
The Best of Watercolor, Vol. 3. Rockport Publishers, Inc. 1999.

Selected Collections:

AT&T, Washington DC, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC, Marriott Corp, Chicago, National Institutes of health, Bethesda, MD,Texaco, Inc., White Plains, NY,United States Coast Guard Collection, NY, NY, Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Research Center, Washington DC, and many more.


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