Precious Lord, 1970-1975

Details

Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980)
Precious Lord, 1970-1975
signed SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN lower left center and along center
acrylic paint and ink on paper
13 x 40 in.

Literature

Gail Andrews Trechsel, ed., Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art (Birmingham, Alabama, 1995), p. 143, fig. 109.

Exhibited

Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen, 4 February - 7 April 1996.
New York, American Folk Art Museum, Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, 25 February - 26 September 2004; additional venues New Orleans Museum of Art and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago.

Lot Essay

A missionary, musician, poet and artist, Sister Gertrude Morgan created colorful didactic paintings of biblical imagery from her home in New Orleans. Here, she depicts herself as the bride of Christ alongside a polar bear, her Everlasting Gospel Mission and a sky filled with angels. A large-scale and impressive work, Precious Lord reveals Morgan's innate ability to abstract space and use color in dynamic ways.

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