The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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1900 Lafayette, Alabama - 1980 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Folk genre and religious theme painting, calligraphy, teaching.
Born in Lafayette, Alabama, Gertrude Morgan was inspired to paint from religious conviction after what she described as a "divine visitation" in her kitchen in 1934. She, with only a third-grade... Read full biography
Born in Lafayette, Alabama, Gertrude Morgan was inspired to paint from religious conviction after what she described as a "divine visitation" in her kitchen in 1934. She, with only a third-grade education, then left her family and at age 37, became an evangelist. Two years later, she settled in New... Read full biography
Born in Lafayette, Alabama, Gertrude Morgan was inspired to paint from religious conviction after what she described as a "divine visitation" in her kitchen in 1934. She, with only a third-grade education, then left her family and at age 37, became an evangelist. Two years later, she settled in New Orleans where she became a street preacher of the gospel for a fundamentalist sect. She started an orphanage and built a small church. Inspired by what she called the "divine word," she dressed in... Read full biography
Born in Lafayette, Alabama, Gertrude Morgan was inspired to paint from religious conviction after what she described as a "divine visitation" in her kitchen in 1934. She, with only a third-grade education, then left her family and at age 37, became an evangelist. Two years later, she settled in New Orleans where she became a street preacher of the gospel for a fundamentalist sect. She started an orphanage and built a small church. Inspired by what she called the "divine word," she dressed in and surrounded herself with items of white, a mode of dress until her death when she was age 80. In keeping with this appearance, she asserted that she had been instructed to become the bride of Christ. After 1965, when her orphanage was destroyed by a... Read full biography
Born in Lafayette, Alabama, Gertrude Morgan was inspired to paint from religious conviction after what she described as a "divine visitation" in her kitchen in 1934. She, with only a third-grade education, then left her family and at age 37, became an evangelist. Two years later, she settled in New Orleans where she became a street preacher of the gospel for a fundamentalist sect. She started an orphanage and built a small church. Inspired by what she called the "divine word," she dressed in and surrounded herself with items of white, a mode of dress until her death when she was age 80. In keeping with this appearance, she asserted that she had been instructed to become the bride of Christ. After 1965, when her orphanage was destroyed by a hurricane, she focused on painting, something that had always held her interest and something that brought her national attention than... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArt in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996Delehanty, Randolph292 pages (color)Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996Rosenak, Chuck and Jan320 pages (color)African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson542 pages (color)Common Ground/Uncommon Vision Michael & Julie Hall Collection American Folk Art
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Lippard, Lucy/J Hayes/K Ames335 pages (color)American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco298 pages (color)Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993Perry, Regina A203 pages (color)Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists
1990Rosenak, Chuck and Jan416 pages (color)African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
1983Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum342 pages (color)Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley186 pages (color)Folk Painters of America
1979Bishop, Robert255 pages (color)Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pages