Day 1: Folk Art, Outsider & Self-Taught. Day 2: Two Private Native American Collections with Select Additions
Wed, Mar 11, 2026 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 69
Sister Gertrude Morgan - Silent Night
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Bid Increments
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| $0 | $25 |
| $200 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
| $1,000,000 | $50,000 |
Sister Gertrude Morgan (Louisiana, 1900–1980) - 'Silent Night'. Paint and ink on cardstock.
Frame: H 11-1/2 in. W 14 in. Card: H 8 in. W 10-1/4 in.
Sister Morgan a was a self-taught artist, musician, poet and preacher. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, she relocated to New Orleans in 1939, where she lived and worked until her death in 1980. Sister Morgan achieved critical acclaim during her lifetime for her paintings. Her work has been included in many groundbreaking exhibitions of visionary and folk art from around 1970.
In 1970, Sister Morgan's work was shown at the Arts and Science Centre in Baton Rouge, LA. In 1973 her work was included in the exhibition Louisiana Folk Paintings at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. The three-person exhibit displayed over 75 of Sister Morgan's paintings, alongside fellow visionary artists Clementine Hunter and Bruce Brice. It was also in 1973 that the NOMA exhibited Sister Morgan's work for the first time, in a show titled Naive Art in Louisiana.In 1982 the exhibition Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 featured twenty artists (including Sister Morgan) . It opened at the Corcoran Museum of Art and went on to tour the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Des Moines Art Center and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
In 2004, the first major retrospective of Morgan's work The Tools of Her Ministry: the Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan opened at the Folk Art Museum in New York City. The exhibition was curated by William A. Fagaly, former Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). This exhibition then traveled to NOMA and later to The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. The exhibition was accompanied by the publication of a catalogue containing essays by William A. Fagaly, Jason A. Berry and Helen M. Shannon.
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