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Director's Note
Born in New Jersey, Wayne Morrell (American) is one of a premier group of American landscape artists who painted in the Bucks County area as well as in the famous artist colony of Rockport, Massachusetts. Morrell continues the tradition of masters such as Winslow Homer, Edward Redfield and George Inness. Although Morrell has painted and shown around the world including art enclaves such as Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico; Rockport, Massachusetts, Hong Kong, and Europe, he is best known for his landscapes of New England and suburban Philadelphia. Morrell's style captures the serenity of the great landscape painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. While his recent works and commercial art is available, early examples of his mature career work such as the painting shown here are rare and highly sought after. Please feel free to contact me with questions regarding the work of Wayne Morrell. Dr. Lori
Born in Laurel Springs, New Jersey in 1923, he began painting and drawing as a youngster. He attended the Philadelphia School of the Industrial Arts, the Lincoln Preparatory School and Drexel University in Philadelphia. He concentrated his educational efforts on art, commercial art and draftsmanship. Morrell worked as a commercial artist and served in the US Army in the Korean War, stationed predominantly at Fort Dix. Most notable early works were Morrell's murals. He painted murals for the day and mess rooms at Fort Dix, New Jersey from autumn of 1948 until summer of 1949. Wayne Morrell also completed army paintings at Fort Dix including a 30 foot mural in 1950-1951. In an army hospital after an accident, he met his future wife, Lillian Major. He drew pictures of nurses and patients and she helped him sell them from his hospital bed. The couple was married in Lowell, Massachusetts and Morrell was soon discharged from active service. The Morrells moved to a suburb of Hartford, CT shortly thereafter their marriage and the couple had a daughter, Lisa and they reside in New England to this day. Morrell's personal life and the sites of New England provided subject matter for his paintings. In addition to his extensive exhibition record and inclusion in numerous private and public collections, Wayne Morrell's work has been featured prominently on many national publications and major magazines.
National Academy of Design
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