Georgia Weston Morgan

Georgia Weston Morgan (December 18, 1869 – December 4, 1951) was an American painter.

Born in Campbell County, Virginia, Morgan was the daughter of Robert Withers Morgan and grew going on at the associates estate, Centerview, in Lynchburg. In the 1890s she taught art in the local public schools before introduction more formal study in Lynchburg gone Bernhard Gutmann, in 1895; she continued her lessons bearing in mind Louise Jordan Smith. An alumna of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, she traveled to Paris for examination at the Académie Julian. She began her teaching career as an art moot at Lynchburg College in 1906; from 1915 until 1945 she chaired the art department at the same institution, during which era she traveled to Philadelphia and Gloucester, Massachusetts for new study. She continued full of life at Centerview when her mother in the 1910s and 1920s; according to relations tradition she used the dependency in back the house as a studio during this time. In 1923, she and her mother's extra heirs sold the home out of the family.

Active in civic affairs, Morgan was in the course of the founders of the Lynchburg Civic Art League in 1932; four years forward-looking she was accompanied by those who worked to state the Federal Art Gallery in the city, a project of the Works Progress Administration. She then served in supplementary capacities locally, including a stint as vice-president of the Lynchburg Historical Society from 1933 until 1936. During her career Morgan was elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. As an artist she produced mainly miniatures and landscapes, which she showed in galleries along the East Coast and at the Paris Salon. She had a reputation as a "Bohemian" for much of her life; one student recalled how she could frequently be found covered in paint, and it was noted that she kept her brushes in her hair to ensure she would remember where they were. At her death, she was memorialized in the local press as the "Dean of Lynchburg Artists". She is buried at Lynchburg's Spring Hill Cemetery.

A historical marker in Morgan's honor, in stomach of Centerview, was sponsored by Randolph College and erected under the support of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in 2015; another marker in tribute of her dad was erected neighboring it at the same time.