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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
Sister Gertrude Morgan - Artist Info
About Sister Gertrude Morgan: Keywords
Keywords (28)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Words, Text, Calligraphy, Letters
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Evans-Tibbs Collections
Added Description
- •Catholic Nun Artist
- •Genre Specialty
- •Outsider Art
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
- •Watercolor Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Outsider Art Fair, New York City