L'ERA
gallery
Dorsoduro Paintings
An immersion in paintings, lights and mysteries of a Venice portrayed for fifty long years.
The key point of this exhibition is the eye and creativity of Robert Morgan, who capture the everyday life of the Serenissima, intertwining it in a language of spaces and forms.
Graduated in literature, frequenter of Peggy Guggenheim's salons and portraitist of John Lennon's death; His friend and poet Joseph Brodsky said of him: "In my opinion, Mr. Morgan is one of the most serious realists of his generation."
Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan, an American painter born in New York in 1943, has lived in Venice for fifty years.
Graduated in Literature from Princeton University, he landed in Venice from New York in 1973 and worked with Edward Melcarth, painter and sculptor who created the frescoes in the Hotel Pierre in New York, friend of Peggy Guggenheim and creator of her iconic sunglasses.
Morgan attends Peggy's house and courses held by Luigi Tito at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, whom he considers a true Venetian master. Particularly fond of the Dorsoduro district, for years he lived and worked in the Zattere and since 2004 he has had his studio in the house that belonged to Filippo De Pisis on the Maddalena bridge over the San Sebastiano river.
He exhibits his works in more than thirty exhibitions, at least half of which in Venice, but remains an independent artist never linked to a gallery or a dealer; His paintings can be found in private collections in Europe and overseas. He frequents many poets and writers and his friend Iosif Brodsky dedicates his "Foundation of the Incurables" to him.
Robert Morgan, an eyewitness to the killing of John Lennon in New York in 1980, instead of taking a photo, painted a picture of it, which he described many years later in the text: “The Photograph Not Taken”.