Franklin Townsend Morgan
F. Townsend Morgan is an etcher and artist of recognized national prominence. Holder of several awards for his prints. Mr. Morgan is represented in the collections of the New York Public Library, Library of Congress, Art Museums in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the Treasury Department of the United States.
Designs from his board appear in many private collections throughout the United States. He was chosen official poster artist for the Tercentenary, May 22 through 27, 1949, and the United States postage stamp commemorating the Tercentenary in his design.
Mr. Morgan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Art Students League in New York City. Since he began printmaking in 1912, Mr. Morgan has produced plates of the Far West, New England, the Atlantic seaboard, Florida and the West Indies.
Awards conferred on him have included the first prize medal of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, two honorable mentions from the Print Club of Philadelphia and an honorable mention from the Art Alliance of Philadelphia. In 1935, he was awarded the J. Frederick Talcott prize at the Society of American Etchers in New York.
While active in Pennsylvania art circles, Mr. Morgan worked with Joseph Pennell, developing his style alongside the dean of American etchers. He was for several years director of the art center at Key West, and was the artist-in-residence of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Mr. Morgan was included in the 1936 survey by the publication "Prints" as one of the outstanding American print makers, and has been represented in many publications concerning prints.
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The following is from Brian Everhart
I am the grandson of Franklin Townsend Morgan. He did in fact die in 1965, in Englewood, FL. He has a collection of art as part of the permanent collection at the Key West Art & Historical Society Customs House Museum, in tribute to his days (1935-1941) with the WPA Artists program in the Keys. He was the second Art Director of the Key West Art Society (the precursor to the above), and traveled throughout the Keys, Cuba and the Virgin Islands during this time.
He was President of the Morgan Steel Company in Annapolis, MD before the Depression washed it out, and before that raised three daughters in Rose Valley, Pa.
