Dorothy Morlan

Dorothy Morlan (May 25, 1882 – October 25, 1967) was an American Impressionist artiste from Salem, Ohio.

Dorothy Morlan's dad was an amateur painter, and taught Morlan how to paint at an to come age. Morlan moved to Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana at a minor age, and that is where the majority of her career as an artist took place. Morlan studied at the Herron School of Art and Design and was a known participant in the Indianapolis City Hospital Project.

Dorothy Morlan began her career as a student at the John Herron Art Institute, where she began studying composition in 1905. She studied under J. Ottis Adams, and William Forsyth, and began to investigation landscape painting even though at Herron. After studying at Herron, Morlan studied at the Robert Henri School of Art in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, under Daniel Garber.
Shortly after her recompense to Indianapolis, she began the Indianapolis City Hospital Project under the organization of William Forsyth. Morlan was a acknowledged participant in the project, although her murals did not survive complex hospital renovations. Morlan was along with a supporter of the Irvington Group, a action of artists that lived and taught in the Indianapolis suburb of Irvington.

Morlan suffered a feat in the late 1940s which paralyzed her right side, ending her painting career; she remained an null and void until her death. She died in Indianapolis.