MALCOLM NORWOOD (American/Mississippi, 1928-2009)

Malcolm Norwood was a painter and ceramist who taught at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS from 1962 to 1990 where he served as the chair of its Art Department. Norwood earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Education from Mississippi College, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama.  He co-authored a book about Marie Hull in 1975 and helped establish the Crosstie Arts Council in Cleveland and served on the Mississippi Arts Commission. Norwood received Delta State's Kossman Award, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member, in 1990, and he was the 1991 recipient of the MS Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Norwood was the subject of a retrospective at the Fielding L. Wright Art Center at DSU in 1995.  His works are held in the permanent collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Fielding L. Wright Art Center at Delta State University, Cleveland, MS, and the University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS.  Very influential to the Mississippi art community for many decades as both an artist and an educator, his works rarely appear on the market. We invite your inquiry.

References:

Black, Patti Carr, Art in Mississippi 1720-1980, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Black, Patti Carr. The Mississippi Story, Jackson: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2007.