BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Marion Livingstone Morgan
(m J.R. Morgan)

September 26 1875 - August 22 1963

Federation of Canadian Artists (Founding Member 1941)

Marion Livingstone Morgan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1875. She was a self taught artist, creating linoleum block prints, wood engravings, monoprints, and drawing with brush. She exhibited at the Southern Printmakers Rotary Exhibition, first showing at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1939.

She exhibited artwork in the 1939 and 1940 annual B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

WWNA noted that she was living at Morgan's Camp, Queen Charlotte Islands, in 1941. B.C. Vital Statistics on-line provides information that she died in Vancouver in 1963.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1939 Sept. 15 - Oct. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists 8th Annual Deserted Haida Indian Village
1940 Sept. 20 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 9th Annual Skidegates
Sea Anemones

References

WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART (refer to WWNA41)

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

PRINTMAKING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1889-1983 (refer to AGGV83)

IMAGES OF THE LAND - CANADIAN BLOCK PRINTS 1919 - 1945 (refer to GLEN84)
      Brief biography of Morgan, one work illustrated: Deserted Haida Indian Village.

BRITISH COLUMBIA WOMEN ARTISTS 1885-1985 (refer to AGGV85)

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      2 references cited for Morgan: WWNA and Images of the Land above.

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)

Clippings

"The customary honorable mentions have been made as follows: Black and white: Mrs. J.R. Morgan, Queen Charlotte Islands, "Skidgates." ..."
      From "Major Art Award to CASF Officer At B.C. Artists' Annual Exhibit"
      Vancouver Sun, October 7 1940

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