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1943 Independence, Missouri - 2014 Taos, New Mexico. Known for: Floral design, southwest scene engraving, embossing on silk.
Using a combination of engraving and embossing, Ed Morgan became a master engraver depicting a variety of subjects including Native Americans, animals, birds and flowers. He grew up in Kansas City,... Read full biography
Using a combination of engraving and embossing, Ed Morgan became a master engraver depicting a variety of subjects including Native Americans, animals, birds and flowers. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a father who made all of his toys by hand, many of them with Southwest motifs. After... Read full biography
Using a combination of engraving and embossing, Ed Morgan became a master engraver depicting a variety of subjects including Native Americans, animals, birds and flowers. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a father who made all of his toys by hand, many of them with Southwest motifs. After his father's death, he lived with grandparents on a farm in northeast Missouri, and he had to travel 30 miles to school. In grade school, he began winning art competitions. He moved to Kansas City,... Read full biography
Using a combination of engraving and embossing, Ed Morgan became a master engraver depicting a variety of subjects including Native Americans, animals, birds and flowers. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a father who made all of his toys by hand, many of them with Southwest motifs. After his father's death, he lived with grandparents on a farm in northeast Missouri, and he had to travel 30 miles to school. In grade school, he began winning art competitions. He moved to Kansas City, became a professional musician, and enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute where he got a reputation for his execution of fine detail. He then worked for nearly twelve years as an illustrator- engraver for Hallmark Cards and later with American... Read full biography
Using a combination of engraving and embossing, Ed Morgan became a master engraver depicting a variety of subjects including Native Americans, animals, birds and flowers. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a father who made all of his toys by hand, many of them with Southwest motifs. After his father's death, he lived with grandparents on a farm in northeast Missouri, and he had to travel 30 miles to school. In grade school, he began winning art competitions. He moved to Kansas City, became a professional musician, and enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute where he got a reputation for his execution of fine detail. He then worked for nearly twelve years as an illustrator- engraver for Hallmark Cards and later with American Greeting Cards. A trip to Taos, New Mexico to pick up frozen buffalo hides changed his life, and he subsequently moved there and to... Read full biography
Ed Morgan - Artist Info
About Ed Morgan: Keywords
Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Embossing
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Jewelry Making, Jewelry Design
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Paper as Art Media
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Taos, New Mexico After 1940
Art School
- •Kansas City Art Institute, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Hallmark Card Artist, Kansas City, Missouri