Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980) was an African-American self-taught artist, evangelist, musician, and poet who used her diverse talents as a vehicle for and extension of her profound religious faith. Morgan's life and art combine the African-American tradition of autonomous expression with a remarkable inherent artistic sensibility. Gertrude Morgan considered her paintings and decorated objects not art but rather tools for teaching the word of God. Settling in New Orleans in 1939, she became a familiar figure on the ...
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Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980) was an African-American self-taught artist, evangelist, musician, and poet who used her diverse talents as a vehicle for and extension of her profound religious faith. Morgan's life and art combine the African-American tradition of autonomous expression with a remarkable inherent artistic sensibility. Gertrude Morgan considered her paintings and decorated objects not art but rather tools for teaching the word of God. Settling in New Orleans in 1939, she became a familiar figure on the streets of the city's French Quarter, where she would set up her easels with paintings illustrating passages from the Bible and preach the Gospel to passersby, often singing in a deep voice and accompanying herself on guitar or tambourine. Most of her paintings are religious in theme; many are literal interpretations of biblical passages from the Old and New Testaments, and her imagery is often richly apocalyptic. She frequently wrote messages or quoted scriptural passages in her pieces, and her text forms an integral and vital part of the total composition. Like many self-taught artists, Morgan began to paint late in life, at the age of 56; she was not inspired by looking at other art or attempting to emulate it. What sets her apart from many in the field, however, is her originality, technical virtuosity, and highly distinctive style that demonstrates sustained artistic growth over a period of more than twenty years. This book will accompany the first comprehensive retrospective of Morgan's work, at the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the New Orleans Museum of Art. It is the first monograph on this important African-American self-taughtartist.
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Gertrude Morgan. Fine in fine jacket. With color illustrations throughout. 108 pages. Slim folio, white boards, d.w. (New York): American Folk Art Museum, (2004). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0847826236. Color reproductions; 4to 11"-13" tall; 120 pages; 2004 Rizzoli & American Folk Art Museum. Oversize HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat with original color pictorial dust jacket. Contents bright and fresh; no marks of any kind. Jacket has a short closed tear bottom edge of the cover panel, trace shelf evidence at edges and mild toning to the flap and rear cover edges. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of work from the exhibition. NF/VG...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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VG/VG, exlibrary with minimal marks, no external marks except small stamp at top of text block, check-out slip inside rear cover. Great shelf appeal. White boards with stamped lettering, color illustrated dust jacket with multi-colored lettering. xi, 108 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Catalog of the exhibition presented in New York, American Folk Art Museum, from February 25 to September 26, 2004; in New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, from November 13, 2004 to January 16, 2005 and in Chicago, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, from February 11 to May 28, 2005. Contents as follows: Tools of her ministry--The art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / William A. Fagaly--New Orleans--In the years of Sister Gertrude Morgan / Jason Berry--But go thou thy way--Sister Gertrude Morgan and the visual in African American culture / Helen M. Shannon--Chronology / William A. Fagaly.
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