Artist: Evelyn De Morgan (1855 - 1919)
Nationality: British
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born Evelyn Pickering, she married famous potter, ceramicist, and fellow painter, William De Morgan in 1887. She was inspired by the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Renaissance artists such as Botticelli. She initially painted mostly literary subjects, but produced several allegorical paintings during World War I.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Francesco Bartolozzi, Portrait Of John Evelyn, 1776
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Little Evelyn, 1896
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Thomas Worlidge, John Evelyn, 18th century
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Joseph Simpson, Pierpont Morgan, fourth plate in the book,The Lions (New York and San Francisco: Morgan Shepard Co., [1906]), circa 1906
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William E. C. Morgan, The Waterfall, 1931
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William E. C. Morgan, Perseus, 1929
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William E. C. Morgan, Orvieto, 1926
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Margery Austen Ryerson, Evelyn (child portrait), 19th - 20th century
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Lou Kohl Morgan, Jane in a Beret, 1978
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William E. C. Morgan, Nymphs bathing, 1928
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David Lance Goines, McManis, Faulkner & Morgan, 1996
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William E. C. Morgan, Italian Hill Farm, 1938
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WH, "The Yankee from Persia" (Mr. Morgan Shuster), Men of the Day No. 1320, from Vanity Fair Supplement, 1912
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Joseph Simpson, The Lions (New York and San Francisco: Morgan Shepard Co., [1906]), 19th - 20th century
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Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J.
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Maud Morgan, American, 1903-1999 1–2–3 1974 Screenprint Image: 64.1 x 48.8 cm (25 1/4 x
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy), "Fred" (The Hon. Frederic Morgan, M.P.), Statesmen No. 624 from Vanity Fair, November 2, 1893, 1893
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Artist: Berenice Abbott Title: Treasury Building from J. P. Morgan"s Office Date: 1938 Medium: gelatin
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Collection Julien Gréau: verrerie antique, emaillerie et poterie appartenent à M. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1903
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Cavalier and Shepherd Francesco Casanova (Italian, Venetian, 1727-1802)Oil on canvas; 25 5/8 x 32 in.
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Study for a Monument Attributed to François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)Oil on paper, laid down on
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George Peter Alexander Healy, American, 1813-1894 Thomas Kemper Davis early 1830s Oil on paperboard 60.96
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The Glorification of Saint Anthony Abbot, sketch for a ceiling decoration Carlo Innocenzo Carloni (Italian,
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Panthers of Bacchus Eating Grapes, study for a tapestry Alexandre François Desportes (French, 1661-1743)Oil on
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Portrait of a Mother and Her Son (The Duff-Ogilvie Portrait) British Painter (16th century style),
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Evelyn Waugh 1964 Photograph, gelatin
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Evelyn McCormick - Carmel Valley Pumpkins c. 1907 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Gertrude Morgan - The Big Apple Inn n.d. oil, ink and graphit National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Morgan Russell - Piscine 1933 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Mrs. William Tennant (Mary Wylde, died 1798), 1780s Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788)Oil on canvas; 49
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Alice Morgan Wright - The Fist 1921 painted green plaste Albany Institute of History and Art American
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Aubrey Beardsley, How Morgan Le Fay Gave a Shield to Sir Tristram, in book 9 opposite page 290 in the book Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights äby Sir Thomas Malory. intro. John Rhys. 2nd ed. (New York: E. P. Dutto
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Stephen Morgan Etnier, American, 1903-1984 Railroad Cut, Brunswick, Maine 1941 Oil on canvas 86.36 x
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Benjamin West, American, 1738-1820 Angels Announcing the Birth of Our Savior about 1790 Pen and
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Dish: David and Goliath, , 629–630; Early Byzantine Byzantine; Made in ConstantinopleSilver; D. 1 1/2
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Barbara Morgan - Martha Graham Letter to the World 1940 gelatin silver print Williams College Museum of Art American
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Barbara Morgan - Merce Cunningham- Root of the Unfocus 1944 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Morgan Russell - Sketch for 'Synchromie en bleu-violace' c. 1913-1914 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Creamer, circa 1825
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Goblet, circa 1825

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: Dichasium: New Work by Morgan James
In Dichasium, twenty six panels of embroidered cloth emerge from black and disappear into white with a rich spectrum in between. Each panel is machine embroidered with a pattern celebrating an indigenous flowering plant. Morgan James is an a...
Morgan Arts Council: Morgan Arts Council brings art to cyberspace
The festival (which runs through September 26th) kicked off with a multimedia gallery exhibit by artist Hasan Elahi at 7:30pm at the Ice House Art and Community Center. The gallery show continues from 11am to 5pm on Saturdays and noon to 4pm...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Art in Bloom: A Weekend of Flowers
This year's arrangements are being created by area garden clubs. Free docent-led tours will be available to give visitors a better understand of the artworks and their relationship to each flower arrangement. The honorary...
Detroit Institute of the Arts: Rembrant: Masterpiece in Etching from the Morgan Library, New York
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Color, Myth, and Music:Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
Among his many accomplishments, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, along with fellow American painter Morgan Russell, fathered the Synchromism movement. Convinced that color and sound were equivalent phenomena and that one could o...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Curated by Diane De Grazia with Carter Foster, the exhibition will travel to the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. National City is the international sponsor of Master Drawings from the Cle...
Wiebke Morgan Gallery: Wilhelm Roseneder: New Paintings
Roseneder says: "The paintings 'Green, Blue, Yellow' seem to reflect back to me my daydreams - a half-concealing veil, which often falls over me - fragments of memories or emotions which possess an element of reality, but also unite the fiction...
Fuller Museum of Art: Almost Home: New England Area Photographers
The basic need to understand and feel comfort with the places we call 'home' is turned upside down in this work. These photographers closely examine the traces we leave, making spaces both anonymous and intricately personal. In presenting this cro...
Arts Center of the Capital Region: Factory Direct .1
Participating artists include: Elizabeth Dove, Jan Galligan, Andrew Boardman, Susie and Betsy Brandt, Carl Scholz, Bill Schuck, Kathleen Brandt, Brian St.Cyr, Jeff Hatfield, Mark Dion, Lisa Austin, Richard Criddle, Roger Bisbing, Morgan Puett, and...
Centre of Attention: Featuring...Curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer
Al+Al
Oreet Ashery
estate of H.W Auden
Simeon Banner
Benedict Carpenter
Rosie Cooper
Greg Daville
Eveleigh and Evans
Nooshin Farhid
A.M. Hanson ('alexcalledsimon')
Jasper Joffe
Tina Keane
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Capacitor: future species2, a mesmerizing web of articulate beauty
San Franciscos;CAPACITORS future species2, six-nights of riveting performance, opens Thursday, February 3, 2000, at 8 p.m., in the somarts Galley Theater, 934 Brandon Street, in this citys Tony SOMA district. Shows are Thursdays through Saturdays,...
Oakland Museum of California: After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography
The exhibition places Walkers work in the context of the history of photography in the environmental movement, demonstrating its relationship to the work of such artist/activists as Ansel Adams, Phillip Hyde, Eliot Porter, the Mono Lake Committee ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Faceless Figure: Photographs from the Collection
In some images, the anonymity of the figure is used to suggest Everyman, while others teach us that it is not just the face that identifies individuality. Techniques used by the photographers include back views, silhouetting, and cropping. Oth...
Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt: Change of Scene XVII
Change of Scene XVII will take the form of an open dialog and interaction, presenting some familiar and some new rooms, with works from our collection, a number of new acquisitions and some ...
Art Scene Warehouse: 11 plus 1: Crowds and Voids - Zhong Biao, Sun Liang, Ai An, Lü Peng, Han Qing, Sun Yuan, He Sen, Tang Ke, Fu Xi, Morgan, Jiang Jian Jun, Xiao Yang
Despite the diversity of the artistic personalities and ideas, the displayed works are linked by a common interest in the relationship between the individual and his/her surroundings. Ranging from bustling crowded street scenes and free-floating m...
Cambridge Galleries: Let's Get Lost: The Summer Vacation Show
But the exhibition has also been influenced by many artists, both contemporary and historical, for whom the experience of art may be founded in a desire to describe ecstatic moments - moments of heightened experience and awareness - moments that h...
Rose Korber at The Bay Hotel: 11th Art Salon at the Bay - New Directions
Included will be familiar names such as Willie Bester, Sam Nhlengethwa, Walter Oltman, Nina Romm, Jenny Stadler, Francine Scialom Greenblatt, Penny Stutterheim, Robert Slingsby, John Kramer, Paul Blomkamp, Louis Jansen van Vuuren and Walter Meyer....
Aron Packer Gallery: Natural History: Group Show
Aron Packer Gallery is pleased to present a small survey of some of the artists working in relation to this genre locally, nationally, and internationally. The gallery transforms into a curiosity cabinet of its own, finding connections and relati...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 22 through March 30, 2003, Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman will survey Leonardo's staggering contribution as artist, scientist, engineer, theorist, and teacher. Gathered from more than 25 ...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Surprise: New Work by 18 Wellington Designers
The works have been created by 18 Wellington designers from the fields of fashion, architecture, interior, graphic, web, industrial, theatre, lighting and sound design, based on the theme of surprise. The exhibition follows a show of the ...
Bayly Art Museum: Galactic Journal: Recent Paintings and Collages by Robert Reed
If Reed's artistic production constitutes a journal, his new work conveys a vision of space exploration, both inner and outer. All the work exhibited has a common dominant form. More subtly, all are called school colors and incorporate, usually in...
Polish Cultural Institute, Location One: Dominik Lejman: Artist in Residence
In "Video Murals - Social Surfaces”, Lejman employs direct recordings of crowds and urban gatherings he has filmed. This original footage is then rendered into a purely abstracted form by the artist through the creation of ornamental crowd motifs ...
National Portrait Gallery: Gemma Levine: Portrait Photographer 25 years
Politics is represented by Baroness Thatcher and Tony Blair, Philosophy by Sir Isiah Berlin, Art by Elizabeth Frink, David Hockney and Henry Moore, Theatre by Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Nigel Hawthorne. Other si...
American-Scandinavian Foundation: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
The Need and The Vision Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America will present Scandinavian culture and achievements, economic and political issues and many other facets of life in Nordic countries to a varied and often influen...
Pacific Art League: Werner Glinka: Urban Totems
“It is our pleasure to offer this exhibit of Werner Glinka’s works to the community,” said Claudia Morgan, president of the Pacific Art League. “To provide art-loving audiences with direct access to excellent emerging artists is central to the Pac...
MASS MoCA: Open and Shut: Artists' Doors
The doors in the Kidspace exhibition were created and designed by six regional artists: Richard Garrison from Albany, New York; Ann Kremers from North Adams, Massachusetts; Julia Morgan and August Ventimiglia, both from Williamstown, Massachu...
Capacitor at ODC Performance Gallery: Ripple: Why are we here... Where is here
Capacitor artistic director Jodi Lomask joins composer Thomas Day for Ripple, the first section of a fall 2000 premiere, Within Outer Spaces, an interpretive look at the astronomical high tech search for the earth's place in the universe. ...
Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art: Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson
A 96-page, full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. It includes an essay by Dr. Daniel Rosenfeld, a Rodin specialist and former research fellow at Yale University. Rosenfeld was a curator at the Rhode Island School of Design and served as ...
Grant Hill: Call for Artists: Something All Our Own Scholarship
The Something All Our Own scholarship has been created to provide educational assistance to students interested in pursuing a degree in visual arts. The scholarship is open to high school (and/or GED) graduates, and the students must be enrolled ...
20th Century Art & Design Fair: Fair Opens Tomorrow in the National Hall Olympia
Exhibitors who have committed already to this year’s fair include Country Seat and Morgan Greenwood with the finest furniture and objects from eminent and international designers such as Aalto and Bertoia, The Loschs from Germany, specialising in ...

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Evelyn De Morgan (1904 - 1997) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Midnight Muse Featured Artist: Evelyn Pickering de Morgan
Victorian Art in Britain
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