Judith P. Morgan facts for kids

Judith P. Morgan (April 27, 1930 - June 30, 2016) was a First Nations Gitxsan artist from Kitwanga, B.C.Canada.

A Gitksan and member of the Tsimshian First Nations, Morgan was born in the village of Kitwanga in British Columbia. Her father was a Tsimshian chief, and her mother was also descended from tribal leaders. At the Alberni Indian Residential School she met George Sinclair, who encouraged her in the development of her art; as a result, she won a two-year scholarship to Cottey College. In 1953 she married Willis O. Fitzpatrick, with whom she had five children; she returned to school, to the University of Kansas, to complete a bachelor's degree in art education in 1976. Morgan began showing her work in the mid-1940s, and it has been seen in venues throughout Canada and the United States. Among her awards are a first prize from the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver (1947) and another first prize from the Arts and Crafts Society Exhibition in Victoria (1948). Five of Morgan's paintings were purchased by the provincial government in 1949, and they have since been loaned and exhibited widely. Morgan returned to Kitwanga in 1983.