Morgan died in Carmel, California leaving a great legacy to California art as a teacher, organizer, and painter. Working in pastel, tempera, oil, and watercolor, she painted sand dunes, wharf scenes, adobes, landscapes, and the wind-swept cypresses of the Monterey Peninsula.
Bright & has a lot of POP! Charming Morgan with family authentication letter on reverse from artist's niece, Dana Morgan Sr in 1997.
The late Robert Beck handled her estate and there is an authentication label verso. It was said when Morgan died many of her paintings were found unsigned. Beck was known for handling her work.
Signed lower left Titled on reverse Retains original Gump's frame Her medium of choice was tempera which was well suited to her early tonalist style, depicting the luminosity and softness in the northern California landscape.
A gift from Morgan to a store clerk who fixed her radio in the 1930s. When Morgan tried to pay him, he would not accept the money, so she presented him with this, one of her finest and largest paintings. Painting has descended in that man's family. First time on the market. In its original wood frame.
Titled on reverse.
Once asked if she didn't tire of painting trees, Morgan answered that "she would stick by her cypress trees till they sink into the sea, or - what is just as tragic and final - be hopelessly built round." Only four days before her death, she was at Point Lobos painting a cypress.
