Lot 899: Elemore Madison Morgan, Jr. (American/Louisiana,

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.