John Richard Morgan

The industrial designer John R. Morgan was born in 1903 in Guatemala City as Juan Ricardo Morgan. The Morgan’s family relocated to Canada in 1913, the same year that the eleven-year-old John won first prize for a watercolor he submitted to the Canadian National Exhibition. He went on to study landscape painting under the Canadian artist Thomas John Thompson and travelled extensively in Europe during his painting career. He lived in various locations throughout the Western hemisphere before establishing a studio in Wheeling, Illinois, and exhibiting works in Chicago, Palm Beach, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. In the 1920s, Morgan’s love of exotic cars led him to study at the Detroit Technical Institute.... more.

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