“[…] looking at a Nan Montgomery painting—the thrill of pure color unmodulated by shadow, shapes syncopated through juxtaposition, competing notions of balance and stasis, and arcing forms that suggest soaring trajectories.

— Virginia Mecklenburg, 2022

Nan Montgomery lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. Committed to abstraction and purity of form, her practice is unified in the dichotomies of natural and material, restriction and freedom, hard edge and soft, all consistent with her personal history.

Montgomery was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1935 and spent her childhood in Walpole, New Hampshire. First attending the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, majoring in printmaking, she transferred to Yale University School of Art where she majored in painting with Josef Albers. Montgomery graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1960. Moving to the Washington area, she attended the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design from 1975 to 1977, studying with Anne Truitt, Gene Davis, and Leon Berkowitz.

Montgomery’s work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; the Corcoran Legacy Collection at American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center; and the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center. She is represtented by Sebastian Gladstone (New York and Los Angeles) and Addison/Ripley Fine Art (Washington, D.C.).