COMMISSARY DOG

35.25” x 30”, framed

Photograph

ARTIST BIO

Maude Schuyler Clay was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi and the Memphis Academy of Arts, she assisted photographer William Eggleston.

Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; the National Museum for Women in the Arts; and the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia; among others. The University Press of Mississippi published her monograph Delta Land in 1999, which received the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award in 2000, and Delta Dogs, which received the award in 2014. She was the Photography Editor of the literary magazine The Oxford American from 1998 to 2002.

Her most recent book, Mississippi History, with a foreword by Richard Ford, was published in 2015 by Steidl. She continues to live and work in the Mississippi Delta with her husband and their three adult children, Anna, Schyler, and Sophie.

She and her husband, photographer Langdon Clay, exhibited for the first time together at the University of Mississippi Museum September 2019 to February 2020.