Having my system prepped with homebrew and using pip install matplotlib after successful installation of numpy and scipy, I\'m getting a successful installation
The problem was with the $PATH variable. Instead of changing something in that variable, I uninstalled all packages in ./Library/Frameworks/. Either way would work. When I was getting that my current version was '1.1.1', that was the current version for the standard python installed on Mac, which is version 2.6, when I was updating with all of the current libraries for 2.7.
NOTE: When uninstalling the frameworks, do not uninstall 2.6 however because the preinstalled mac build is used for a lot of other Mac programs, and I ended up having to reinstall my OS.