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Gertrude Morgan

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seals, Armageddon, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, the millennial kingdom of Christ on Earth, and the New Jerusalem." It is for her paintings of New Jerusalem that Sister Morgan is most well known. The holy city of New Jerusalem "coming down from God out of heaven" was consistently depicted as a multi storey apartment building in her compositions. In some of her New Jerusalem paintings, a choir of interracial angels adorn the sky. The choir of angels frequent many of her paintings, sometimes as one of many elements in a composition, and other times as the sole subject.
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acrylics, tempera, ballpoint pen, watercolors, crayon, colored and lead pencils and felt tip markers. Using inexpensive materials she had at hand, Sister Morgan painted on paper, toilet rolls, plastic pitchers, paper megaphones, scrap wood, lampshades, paper fans and styrofoam trays. The fact that she was self-taught, coupled with her choice of materials as well as her style and subject matter have led her to be characterized as a naive, folk, visionary, vernacular and outsider artist.
212:(n.d.). On it she has written, "Sitting in my Kitchen one night I heard a great strong Voice speak to me said I'll make thee as a signet for I have chosen thee I got this calling on the 30th day of Dec in 1934 I had to answere to my calling and one day give up and Pack up and go … a chosen vessel of God's its wonderful to Be. God called me a chased me and turned me into the hands of his son and JESUS said take up your cross and follow me." 229:
raised livestock and grew vegetables on the land surrounding the large house. They held neighborhood feasts at the Orphanage, where the 'Prophetesses' (as Sister Morgan would later name them in her paintings) would play the piano, drums, cymbals and beat tambourines. In addition to street preaching, the three women visited
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In 1938 a second revelation followed, in the form of a voice that said, "Go-o-o-o-o, Preacher, tell it to the World". It was in this year that she left Columbus, first for Opelika, Alabama, then to Mobile and possibly Montgomery. She worked as a nursemaid and nanny in Opelika and Mobile, and possibly
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Gertrude Williams married Will Morgan on February 12, 1928. She lived with her husband at 1324 North Avenue in Columbus, GA. While there is no evidence of a divorce, it is known that Sister Morgan left Columbus alone in 1938, traveling first to Alabama and then to New Orleans, where she would settle.
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featured twenty artists (including Sister Morgan) and close to 400 paintings and sculptures. It opened at the Corcoran Museum of Art and went on to tour the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Des Moines Art Center and the Cleveland Museum
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met Sister Morgan while she was preaching in the French Quarter. He invited her to perform and exhibit work in his art gallery after coming upon her shouting on a street corner with a paper megaphone. Borenstein cultivated an audience for her work by introducing her paintings to collectors, artists,
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When she arrived in New Orleans in 1939, Sister Gertrude met Mother Margaret Parker and Sister Cora Williams. The two women were involved in the Holiness and Sanctified movement, an African American faith in which the activities of music, song and dance were central. The three women soon established
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Sister Morgan's art brought her fame and notoriety, something she reportedly both enjoyed and felt conflicted about. In 1973 she announced that the Lord had ordered her to cease painting in order to concentrate on her preaching and poetry. 'Painting now? Oh no,' she reportedly said in 1974. I'm way
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Originally conceiving her artworks as appendages to her gospel teachings, Sister Morgan's paintings are often inscribed with passages from scripture and lyrics to popular gospel songs. Similarly, her paintings that document her childhood, early adulthood and first years in New Orleans are inscribed
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Similar to other self-taught artists, Sister Morgan used simple forms to depict the human figure. Her works are characterized by their lack of the use of formal techniques such as perspective and definition of light and shadow, giving them a flat, two dimensional quality. She painted and drew using
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Morgan particularly favored the Book of Revelation. William A. Fagaly writes, "The apocalyptic text of the Book of Revelation offers a plethora of visionary images: the Apocalypse and its four horsemen, the Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, the Beast (with the mark 666), the heavenly book of seven
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The three women adopted black robes, and gave shelter to as many as twenty orphans and runaways at a time. (In Sister Gertrude's paintings, the three women are pictured in their black robes, adorned with white collars, cuffs and waist ties). As Gentilly was a fairly rural area at this time, they
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Another recurring image in her work is a self-portrait as the Bride of Christ, riding with Jesus in an airplane. There is speculation that this references the hymn "Oh, Jesus Is My Air-o-plane", recorded in 1930. Another hymn, "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me", first published in 1871 by Edward Hopper,
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In 1956, Sister Gertrude Morgan received another revelation from God urging her to paint. She understood the act of painting as a tool to be used in her service to the Lord, just as she used music in her street preaching. Sister Morgan used her early paintings as visual aids in her sermons and
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Sister Morgan's first documented involvement with religion came in her late teens, when she joined the Rose Hill Memorial Baptist Church, a local congregation in Columbus, Georgia. After she began painting in 1956, Sister Morgan documented this time in her life in the paintings
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On July 8, 1980, Sister Morgan died in her sleep at her home in the Lower Ninth Ward. Her funeral arrangements were made by Larry Borenstein and a service was held at the well-to-do House of Bultman, on St. Charles Avenue. Her art work was displayed at the service, and
417:(NOMA). This exhibition then traveled to NOMA and later to The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. The exhibition was accompanied by the publication of a catalogue containing essays by William A. Fagaly, Jason A. Berry and Helen M. Shannon. 855:. Powell, Richard J., 1953-, Patton, Sharon F., Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle. pp.  225:
a mission and orphanage at Mother Parker's house at 533 Flake Avenue in Lower Gentilly, then on the outskirts of New Orleans. The orphanage was funded by money raised from preaching and performing in the streets.
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and added contemporary beat programming and instrumentation. The album received rave reviews and created a new, young audience for Sister Gertrude Morgan. The album artwork featured her paintings.
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Sister Morgan signed her paintings with many names, among them Black Angel, Lamb Bride, Nurse to Doctor Jesus, Everlasting Gospel Revelation Preacher, Bride of Christ and Little Ethiopia Girl.
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Morgan's former house and mission remained a neighborhood landmark after her death. Like the rest of the neighborhood, it was severely damaged in the
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The first of many revelations that Gertrude was to experience came in 1934. The story of this revelation is inscribed on one of her paintings,
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were both fans of her work. Warhol was an occasional correspondents, while Friedlander used Sister Morgan as a subject in his photographs.
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She's the Four-Leaf Clover in the City Katrina Turned Over: The Historical Sister Gertrude Morgan and Her Post-Hurricane Katrina Specters.
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teachings, often with children. Her paintings depict religious subject matter almost exclusively, illustrating scenes from scripture. The
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Her later work is characterized by the dominance of the inscriptions. Her imagery becomes sparse and in some compositions non-existent.
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in 1939, where she lived and worked until her death in 1980. Sister Morgan achieved critical acclaim during her lifetime for her
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paintings. Her work has been included in many groundbreaking exhibitions of visionary and folk art from the 1970s onwards.
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opened at the Folk Art Museum in New York City. The exhibition was curated by William A. Fagaly, former Director of the
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and Bruce Brice. It was also in 1973 that the NOMA exhibited Sister Morgan's work for the first time, in a show titled
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in 2005. The damaged house was gutted in hopes it could be repaired and renovated, but was subsequently demolished.
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was of special significance, and provided subject matter that she would return to over and over again in her work.
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In 1957 Sister Morgan received another revelation from God. Dreaming, she heard a voice that told her she was the
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For reasons unknown, Sister Morgan left school before completing the third grade. Around 1917 her family moved to
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Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-taught Art from the Collection of Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen
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Cardinal, Roger; Kogan, Lee; Larsen, Susan C.; Patterson, Tom; Perry, Regenia (3 November 1995).
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In 1970, Sister Morgan's work was shown at the Arts and Science Centre in Baton Rouge, LA.
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with the narratives of specific events, that often reference her evangelical activities.
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African-American artists, 1880-1987 : selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
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artist, musician, poet and preacher. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, she relocated to
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Berry, Jason; Fagaly, William A.; Morgan, Gertrude; Shannon, Helen M. (2004).
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too worried. Worrying about what time it is and praying on people's cases.'"
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Doorway of Sister Gertrude's former home/mission in the Lower 9th Ward, 2007.
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Music was another tool of Sister Morgan's ministry. In the early 1970s,
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Souls grown deep : African American vernacular art of the South
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Crown, Carol; Rivers, Cheryl; Wilson, Charles Reagan (3 June 2013).
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Campbell, Mary Schmidt (Winter 1982). "Black Folk Art in America".
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was recorded in order to capture Morgan singing and playing her
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The Tools of Her Ministry: the Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
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began work as a healer and street prophet during this time.
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In 2004, the first major retrospective of Morgan's work
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Price, Ann. "Character Portrayal Outstanding in Show",
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Thesis (M.A.) - University of Missouri-Columbia, 2009.
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Reynolds, Clarence V. (June 2004). "Divine Folk Art".
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THE ROSE HILL MEMORiAL BAPTiST CHURCH, Columbus Ga.
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LaFayette, Alabama
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jefferson Parish
29°58′37″N 90°13′40″W / 29.976871°N 90.227854°W / 29.976871; -90.227854
Outsider art
African-American
New Orleans
folk art
Lafayette, Alabama
Columbus, Georgia
Orleans Parish Prison

Gentilly
Lower Ninth Ward
Federal levee failure flood disaster during Hurricane Katrina
Bride of Christ
Book of Revelation
Larry Borenstein
Lee Friedlander
Andy Warhol
Rod McKuen
Smithsonian
Pérez Art Museum Miami
American Folk Art Museum
Clementine Hunter
New Orleans Museum of Art
tambourine
Let's Make a Record.
King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude Morgan.
Outsider art

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