The Master at the Door and Prophetess Morgan; two works

Born in Lafayette, Alabama in 1900, Sister Gertrude Morgan moved to New Orleans in 1939 following a divine revelation that ordered her to testify and spread the word of the Gospel. There she met and joined Mother Margaret Parker and Sister Cora Williams, creating a mission and orphanage. During this time, Sister Morgan illustrated her 'sermons,' often on scraps of cardboard, canvas, and even home-made fans used at the mission. Her vibrant works, executed in pencil, ink, crayon, watercolor and acrylic, depict angels, Biblical figures and stories and sometimes feature, as one of the works in the present lot, a self-portrait of Morgan in her signature white nurse uniform habit that she adopted as the 'bride of Christ' after 1957.