American Landscapes - In the Footsteps of a Tradition
Recent Realist Paintings by John Morrell
October 29 - November 22, 2008
Sherry French Gallery
601 West 26th Street, 13th Floor
New York, New York 10001-1101

A native of Albany, New York, John Morrell has painted and taught in the Washington, DC area for over thirty years. He teaches Painting and Drawing, and coordinates the Painting program at Georgetown University. Morrell's first solo exhibition showed landscape paintings done in Brittany, France in 1978.  Seventeen other solo exhibitions followed, along with many group exhibitions, and numerous commissions for private and corporate collections.  In 1980 the Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired Morrell’s mixed-media drawing Chateau IV.  Curator Willem de Looper of the Phillips Collection awarded Morrell’s painting Reverie "Best in Show" at Athenaeum's Fourteenth Annual Juried Show in 1984.  The United States Postal Service selected Morrell's depiction of Georgetown University’s Healy Hall for a postcard in their historic building series in 1989.  Morrell has worked outside the DC area. In 1994 at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts he received a Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Fellowship.  In 2004 at the Savannah College of Art and Design Morrell, as a Visiting Artist and guest lecturer, presented From The Ground Up, a solo exhibition of grisaille drawings.  In 2005 Galerie Lee in Paris featured his urban landscapes in a solo exhibition.  In 2006 John Morrell participated in group exhibitions at New York's Sherry French Gallery and the “Trash” exhibition at Atlantic Gallery in SoHo. He is reprsented by Sherry French Gallery in New York and Addison-Ripley Fine Art in Washington, DC. He is a participating member of the New York non-profit artist cooperative, Atlantic Gallery.