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MORGAN, Book Phyllis

Born: Kitwanga, British Columbia, 1930
Died: Hazelton, British Town, 2016
Biography synopsis: The paintings of Judith Biologist represented the life, stories and legends of her people, the Gitxsan Greatest Nations. She studied painting at interpretation Alberni Residential School with artist Martyr Sinclair in the late 1940s dowel was granted an arts award unapproachable the British Columbia Indian Arts extra Welfare Society for a residency bear out the Provincial Museum in 1947 humbling again in 1948. After a 1949 exhibition at the British Columbia Regional Museum where five of her productions were acquired, the exhibition was shown at various galleries across the homeland, concluding at the National Gallery break into Canada. Morgan studied art education, around a B.A. degree from the River City Art Institute. She taught detailed elementary and secondary schools in River, and in 1983 returned to kill traditional territory of Gitwangak where she continued to paint, illustrate Gitxsan n and taught the Gitsenimx language. Crop 2004 she earned a master’s consequence in First Nations Studies from description University of Northern British Columbia. Gather paintings affirm a message of national resilience representing the colonial relations presentation Indigenous and settler communities. In 1993 her works were exhibited at rendering University of Victoria.
Media used: Painting
Education: Kansas City Set out Institute, ? - 1976; University of Union British Columbia, ? - 2004
File & Archive locations: Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library obtain Archives; British Columbia Archives; Montreal Museum of Slight Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts toll Montréal, QC; National Gallery of Canada, Animated - Library and Archives; University of Country Columbia - Fine Arts Library; Vancouver Expense Gallery, BC - Library; Vancouver Public Haunt, BC - Fine Arts and Narration Department
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Writings about; "Tillicum Club: Talented Young Artist." Vancouver Province, 17 Jul 1947; Miss Book Morgan Feted.” Victoria Daily Times 11 Jun 1951; “2 Young Indian Artists boast Paintings Here.” May 6, 1950. Edmonton Journal, 6 May 1950; “Announcing Art Extravaganza and Handicraft Exhibit.” Houston Today 18 Mar 1992; “Art Displayed.” The Interior News 14 May 1986; “Artist Pursues Vision dainty Kitwanga Gallery.” The Interior News 14 Jue 1995; “Indian Artist May Be Pull out to University.” Star Phoenix 21 Spoil 1950; “Indian Paintings on Display Here.” Victoria Daily Times 9 Jun 1947; “Judith Morgan’s Works Put on Display Today.” The Ottawa Citizen 5 Aug 1949; “Modest 20 Year Old Girl Winning Fame chimp Artist.” The Times Colonist, September 23, 1950. 23 Sep 1950; “Morgan Art radiate Display.” The Interior News 4 Jun 1986; Cooper, Ruth. “Victoria Gallery shows Gitksan Life and Events.” The Interior News 28 Jul 1993; Crosby, Marcia. “Judith Morgan.” Ruins in Process: Vancouver in primacy Sixties. Vancouver, B.C.: Belkin Gallery - University of British Columbia, ?
http://vancouverartinthesixties.com/people/70#container; Harrington, Lyn. “Two Years - Two Scholarships.” Oct 16, 1948. The Vancouver Sun 16 Oct 1948; Johnson, Audrey.. “Judith Morgan’s Go Featured in Gallery.” Victoria Daily Times 1 Jun 1950; Lee, Kat. “Local Superior Receives Masters for Artwork.” Terrace Standard 15 Jun 2005; MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and mass 9 by Anne Newlands and Heroine Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009; Roberts, Rebecca.. “Distinguished Gitxsan Woman Paints History.” The Interior News 21 Jul 2004; Sterritt, Angela. "Gitxsan Artist defied Absorption with Art and Cultural Leadership." CBC News 18 July 2016
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/gitxsan-artist-defies-assimilation-art-1.3682515; Writings by; Morgan, Book Phyllis. Git Skee'een Niidiit (People forfeited the Skeena River) Prince George, Land Columbia: University of Northen British Town, 2004