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Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980) was a missionary, preacher, artist, musician, poet and writer who lived and worked in New Orleans in the 1960s and '70s. Her legendary sermons, street-corner preaching and unique artwork made her one of the most revered characters in recent American folk art history.
13 Μαρ 2019 · Like in much of America, Irish immigrants in New Orleans helped to build rail lines, roads and canals. They arrived in the city in large numbers in the 1830s, which is the same decade the Pontchartrain Railroad and the New Basin Canal were finished.
Sister Gertrude Morgan. Born 1900, LaFayette, Alabama. Died 1980, New Orleans, Louisiana. By the time Sister Gertrude Morgan was making pictures regularly in the early 1960s, she had already spent nearly twenty years as a Holiness-Pentecostal missionary and street preacher.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Sister Gertrude Morgan, an African American artist, musician, street preacher, and prophet lived and ministered in New Orleans. She evangelized at her home in the Lower Ninth Ward, on the streets of the French Quarter, and at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. She painted on any
When she arrived in New Orleans in 1939, Sister Gertrude met Mother Margaret Parker and Sister Cora Williams. The two women were involved in the Holiness and Sanctified movement, an African American faith in which the activities of music, song and dance were central.
5 Δεκ 2006 · She made it in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Sister Gertrude Morgan’s record reveals her single-minded commitment to worship. Her artwork and music were saturated with images and words from Scripture.
22 Φεβ 2004 · Sometime in the mid-1950's, Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street preacher in New Orleans, received two powerful revelations. First God told her to begin making pictures to spread his Word, and she...
