This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on George Pitt Morison is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
George Pitt Morison (31 August 1861 – 4 September 1946) was an Australian painter and engraver noted particularly for his painting The Foundation of Perth 1829 which was commissioned as part of Western Australia's centenary celebrations, and presented to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in February 1929.
In 1890 he travelled to Europe to study at the Academie Julian in Paris and in the early 1930s worked as chief curator of art at the Western Australian Museum Art Gallery.1
Morison was born on 31 August 1861 in Melbourne and died on 4 September 1946 in South Yarra, Victoria.2
References
Further reading
- W.A. Art & Artists 1900 – 1950 by Janda Gooding. Art Gallery of W.A. publication
 This article about an artist from Australia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 18 September 2008, at 18:24.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "George Pitt Morison".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.