Biography

Peggy Fox came to photography following her training as a painter at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, where she grew up. After relocating to Baltimore and serving nine years as director of the art department at St. Paul’s School, she embarked on her career as an independent photographer. Largely self-taught, she has balanced her time between assignment photography and fine art, the one people oriented and the other experimental. The former has allowed her access to many different worlds—corporate, industrial, schools, and hospitals—and to a variety of applications, including publications, portraiture, and documentary. In her fine art, Fox combines photographic images to create a range of pieces, from painted gelatin silver prints to mixed media on aluminum panels. Early in her career, Fox was featured in a one-person show at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1977, she created “Lost in the Cosmos”, a 10-by-100-foot mural commissioned by the Maryland Transit Administration for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Metro station. She has received two Maryland Arts Council grants and her work is exhibited nationally. Patapsco, Portrait of a Maryland Valley will be  published by The Center for American Places in the fall of 2008. Fox and her husband, Arthur Houghton, live in Cockeysville, Maryland.