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MORGAN, Judith Phyllis
- Born
- Kitwanga, British Columbia, 1930
- Died
- Hazelton, British Columbia, 2016
- Biography synopsis
- The paintings of Judith Morgan represented the life, stories and legends of her people, the Gitxsan First Nations.
She studied painting at the Alberni Residential School with artist George Sinclair in the late 1940s and was granted an arts award from the British Columbia Indian Arts and Welfare Society for a residency at the Provincial Museum in 1947 and again in 1948.
After a 1949 exhibition at the British Columbia Provincial Museum where five of her works were acquired, the exhibition was shown at various galleries across the country, concluding at the National Gallery of Canada. Morgan studied art education, obtaining a B.A.
degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. She taught in elementary and secondary schools in Kansas, and in 1983 returned to her tra