george ford morris
Year of Birth:
1873
Immortal:
Yes
Elected as Immortal:
1978
Year of Death:
1960
Biography:
An outstanding equine artist, George Ford Morris painted portraits of horses for more than seventy years. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1873, Morris studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Julian Academy in Paris. Some of his earliest illustrations of horses for magazines were done when he was seventeen. Morris' work appeared in such publications as The Horseman, Breeder's Gazette, Western Horseman, American Field and American Horseman. In 1952 he published a book titled Portraiture of Horses. George Ford Morris died in 1960 in Arcadia, California.
Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals