Elemore Morgan, Jr.

Elemore Morgan Jr.
Born	August 6, 1931 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Died	May 18, 2008 Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality	American
Education	Louisiana State University, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, New Orleans School of Art
Known for	Painting
Movement	en plein air
Awards	Distinguished Artist award by the Delgado Society, of the New Orleans Museum of Art (2000). Outstanding Achievement in the Arts award by the Acadiana Arts Council (1990). Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award by the Amoco Foundation (1984–85).

Elemore Morgan Jr. (August 6, 1931 - May 18, 2008) was recognized among the South's landscape artists. His paintings of rice farms in Vermilion Parish have been widely exhibited from Paris to Los Angeles.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as an only child, he was raised on his grandfather's farm which influenced his affinity for nature and the rural life of Louisiana. His father influenced his decision to become an artist. Elemore Morgan Sr., a full-time photographer, had also worked and farmed with Louisiana architect A. Hays Town. At Louisiana State University and studied art under the tutelage of Caroline Durieux, Ralston Crawford and David LeDoux. For two years he served in the U.S. Air Force as a supply officer during the Korean War. With the help of the GI Bill, Morgan studied art at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford in England. In 1957 he returned to Louisiana began working in Lafayette with longtime friend and architect Neil Nehrbass. He served as an associate professor from 1965 to 1998 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana).

Morgan was renowned for his en plein air landscape paintings often in the heart of the rice growing region of southwest Louisiana. Many of Morgan’s landscapes were acrylic on oddly shaped Masonite panels, cut to fit his vision of the land, which he felt were integral to the design and composition of his works.

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