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ELEMORE MORGAN, JR. b. 1931, Baton Rouge, Louisiana d. 2008, Baltimore, Maryland View from the Prairie, 1988 Acrylic on Masonite; 94 x 141 in. Ogden Museum of Southern Art Gift of The Roger H. Ogden Collection Elemore Morgan, Jr., is Louisiana's premier painter of the Southwest Louisiana prairie in the en plein air tradition. He has created a monumental collection of iconic and signature works that capture in a vivid palette that broad landscape under an expanse of sky. The only child of Elemore Morgan, Sr., a well-known photographer, Morgan Jr. also became an accomplished photographer and a figure study painter (of both humans and livestock) as well as a painter of still lifes, industrial buildings, architecture, and iconic landmarks. His desire to achieve a direct response to an observed form prompted Morgan to devise a an easily portable kit for making art, facilitating quick, on-site paintings that eventually led to his choice of working in the plein air style with acrylic on a masonite panel. DB ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA 313  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1124 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1124

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