Elemore Madison Morgan Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Elemore Madison Morgan Art Value Price Guide

May. 19, 2019
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Untitled 13692 (Flowers in Pots)"
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "Untitled 13692 (Flowers in Pots)" gouache on paper monogramed lower right, verso with "Arthur Roger Gallery" label. Glazed and framed. 32" x 20", framed 37-3/4" x 25-1/4"
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Apr. 27, 2019
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Linear Landscape"
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "Linear Landscape", 1997 acrylic on masonite monogramed lower right, signed, titled and dated en verso. Unframed. 36" x 72" Provenance: Private collection, New Orleans, Louisiana. Notes: One of the South's preeminent landscape painters, Elemore Morgan, Jr.'s depictions of his native Louisiana prairies and marshes have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. With his gestural style employing bright colors, reminiscent of the French fauvists, he lovingly painted the expansive rural landscape with its massive ever-changing skies. It was during a childhood spent on his grandfather's vast farm outside of Baton Rouge, that Elemore's appreciation of nature was born and this would later become crucial in shaping his art. He was truly a plein-air artist, using a studio mainly to store the many-shaped panels and painting supplies. It is perhaps his generous spirit for which he is most remembered; when he was not painting in the great outdoors, he was helping others with their artistic work and exhibits, as well as managing his father's (Elemore Morgan, Sr.) photographic negatives and prints that were constantly in demand.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Dec. 02, 2018
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr., (American, 1931-2008), Low Cloud, 1991, acrylic on masonite, 3 3/4" x 48"
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American, 1931-2008) Low Cloud, 1991 acrylic on masonite initialed lower right 3 3/4" x 48"
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Jul. 23, 2017
Elemore Morgan, Sr., (American/Louisiana, 1903-1966), "Week's Bayou on Week's Island" and "Log Cabin Settlement on the River", ca. 1.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Elemore Morgan, Sr. (American/Louisiana, 1903-1966) "Week's Bayou on Week's Island" and "Log Cabin Settlement on the River", ca. 1950-1952 two silver gelatin prints both with Standard Oil Co., N.J., photo credit stamps en verso. Matted, glazed and framed alike. each sheet 11" x 14" Provenance: Standard Oil of New Jersey Photographic Collection. Literature: Illustrated: "Week's Bayou on Week's Bay" in Carter Hodding, John Law Wasn't So Wrong: [The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty, Baton Rouge: Esso Standard Oil Co., 1952, np. (table of contents). Notes: These rare photographs chronicle not only the rich landscape and history of Louisiana portrayed through the lens of a native Acadian, but their commission also informs the history of the Standard Oil Company in the state and comprises an important photographic archive of both the nation and region. In the early 1940s, Elemore Morgan, Sr., an architectural draftsman and tire store owner from Baton Rouge, turned to photography, creating an important visual record of Louisiana architecture, rural life, customs and flora and fauna. In 1943, his early photographs were illustrated in Harnett Kane's, Bayous of Louisiana; in the late 1940s, Morgan collaborated with novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes to publish a state-wide historical narrative titled All This Is Louisiana. At the same time Morgan launched his photography career, the Standard Oil Company embarked on a campaign of expansion and assimilation in Louisiana, employing film and PR to integrate its burgeoning refineries into the fabric of rural Cajun life. In 1948, they produced the Louisiana Story, a narrative film about a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon, whose family's financial insolvency is solved after the elderly patriarch allows the oil company to drill oil from an inlet behind their home. Directed by Robert Flaherty and set on location with local residents for actors, the film's cinematography and its Cajun music score (performed by the Philadelphia Symphony) is a celebration of Acadia that inculcates oil into the terrain through the active participation of its people.1. Following the Louisiana Story, the Standard Oil Company commissioned Elemore Morgan to photograph the state for a book on the history of Louisiana, dedicated to the people of Louisiana, which similarly inserted its drilling and refineries into its history. Written by Hodding Carter, John Law Wasn't So Wrong recasts Law, the French economists who lured Frenchmen to the new world through the promise of an earthly paradise full of virgin land, as a hero, not the scoundrel the new immigrants found him to be for failing to mention the mosquito-ridden swamps that bred alligators and malaria. These photographs were part of this epic project; thirty-one of the photos Morgan took were published in this book, including "Week's Bayou on Week's Island". In 1953, the photographs, including twenty-four of a wildcat oil well, were commemorated in a show at Louisiana State University, titled "Photographs of Louisiana"; and in 1987, the Natural History Museum in Lafayette (now Lafayette Science Museum) paid tribute to Morgan and the Standard Oil project in an exhibit titled "Postwar to Prosperity? (Louisiana 1946-1950): Images from the Standard Oil of New Jersey Photographic Collection." The documentary photography Morgan and the Standard Oil Company created represents an important exchange between indigeneity and industry, and are preserved in the permanent collections of the Historic New Orleans Collection, Louisiana State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the Lafayette Science Museum. 1. Louisiana Story was nominated for an Academy Award and the music score won a Pulitzer Prize, the only score in the history of Hollywood to earn such an accolade. References: Carter, Hodding. John Law Wasn't So Wrong: [The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty]. Esso Standard Oil Co.: Baton Rouge, 1952; "Elemore Morgan Photos of State Will Be Shown". Times Advocate. 13 Feb. 1953, p. 12; "Photo Conference Set". Ibid. Nov. 8, 1987; Parr, Leslie Gale. "Elemore Morgan, Sr." Know Louisiana: The Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana. 1 Feb. 2011. Web. 21 June 2017.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Mar. 22, 2015
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (Louisiana, 1931-2008)
Est: $500 - $800
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "Louisiana Landscape", acrylic on masonite, 1990, signed and dated en verso, 4" x 9".
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Mar. 16, 2014
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American, 1931-2008)
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American, 1931-2008), "Oak at the Edge of the Rice Fields", 1976, acrylic on board, initialed lower right, signed and dated en verso, 17" x 44".
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Nov. 18, 2012
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana)
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Landscape", acrylic on wood panel, initialed lower right, 10 in. x 20 in., framed. Provenance: A Lafayette, Louisiana Collection Starting Bid: $1700
Neal Auction Company
Jul. 29, 2012
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (Louisiana, 1931-2008)
Est: $20,000 - $40,000
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Water In A Rice Field", acrylic on masonite, 2005, initialed lower right, signed, titled and dated verso, 47-1/2" x 96". Provenance: Private collection, New Orleans, Louisiana. Purchased at Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Elemore Morgan, Jr. was and still is recognized as the leading contemporary Louisiana landscape painter. He was best known for the "plein air" acrylics, set in the rice-growing region of southwest Louisiana, where the artist's front porch offered a view such as one in this particular painting. In his treatment of color and light, he was often linked to Impressionists and Fauves of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In his use of bright palate and gestural style he successfully captured the intense heat and shimmering humidity of his natural environment. The size and shape of the masonite panels played an integral part in the design and composition of the paintings, reflecting the great vistas of the prairies and marshes. Elemore Morgan, Jr. was also an educator who taught drawing at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette for 33 years, and until his death in 2008 he tirelessly worked to promote visual and performing arts in Louisiana. He positively impacted the lives of students, fellow artists and friends around him. In 2010, the State of Louisiana has declared that annually, September 18 will be Elemore Morgan, Jr. day. Please Note: Starting Price USD $16000
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Nov. 21, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Blue Oak", c. 1972, felt-tip pen and oil pastel on paper, unsigned, sight 17 1/8 in. x 21 7/8 in., matted and framed. Note: Distinguished as one of Louisiana's leading landscape painters, Elemore Morgan Jr. was born in Baton Rouge. His father was a photographer, and an early artistic influence on the painter. He received his fine arts degree from Louisiana State University, and attended Oxford's Ruskin School of Fine Art. The offered lot represents one of the South's most recognizable images, the distinctive live oak, and represents one of the many scenes Morgan painted of rice-farms in Vermilion Parish.
Neal Auction Company
Nov. 21, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Fence and Pasture", 1972, felt-tip pen and oil pastel on paper, pencil monogrammed and dated "EMM-'72" lower right, inscription from original backing "June 18-'73 For Herman with best wishes-Elemore" affixed en verso, sight 17 1/8 in. x 21 7/8 in., matted and framed.
Neal Auction Company
May. 23, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $4,500 - $7,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "Mississippi River Landscape", ca. 1999, gouache on paper, signed on the reverse of sheet, 9" x 45-1/2". Glazed, handsomely matted and framed. Provenance: Private collection, Lafayette, Louisiana.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
May. 23, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $2,500 - $4,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "Summer Shower Over the Rice Fields", 1987, acrylic on masonite, initialed lower right "EMM", dated, signed and inscribed in black marker "Small Sky Study" on the reverse upper mounting strut, 16" x 18-1/4". Provenance: Private collection, Lafayette, Louisiana.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
May. 23, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $800 - $1,200
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), a pair of pastel, crayon, ink and colored marker drawings on artist's sketch paper, the first titled in pencil "Some American Forms", on three sheets joined together with tape to form a triptych, signed in ink lower right "Elemore Morgan" and dated "April 12, 1973", 8-1/2" x 15-3/4"; the second titled "Some Coastline Structures" on a single sheet, not signed, dated "April 14, 1973", 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Glazed and presented in matching frames. Provenance: Private collection, Lafayette, Louisiana.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
May. 23, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $500 - $800
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "New York Vistas", pastel, crayon, ink and colored marker on two sheets of artist's sketch paper, the left side with a view of the Manhattan skyline as seen by the artist from a rooftop in New Jersey with a cat lurking about, the right side with views of Lincoln Center and figures walking in a park setting, signed in ink lower right "Elemore Morgan Jr.", 8-1/2" x 10-3/8". Glazed and framed. Provenance: Private collection, Lafayette, Louisiana.Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), a pair of pastel, crayon, ink and colored marker drawings on artist's sketch paper, the first titled in pencil "Some American Forms", on three sheets joined together with tape to form a triptych, signed in ink lower right "Elemore Morgan" and dated "April 12, 1973", 8-1/2" x 15-3/4"; the second titled "Some Coastline Structures" on a single sheet, not signed, dated "April 14, 1973", 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Glazed and presented in matching frames. Provenance: Private collection, Lafayette, Louisiana.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Mar. 28, 2010
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $3,500 - $5,000
Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008) "Cloudy Skies Over a Winter Field", oil and gouache on paper, initialed in pencil lower right "EMM", sheet 11" x 44-1/2". Glazed, handsomely matted and framed.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Oct. 11, 2008
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana, 1931-2008), "Iris", watercolor on paper, initialed "E.M.M." and dated "05" lower right, sight 22 in. x 14 3/4 in., attractively matted and framed.
Neal Auction Company