The Red House (1978.76.1)

This gold-framed impressionist-styled oil painting shows a large red house and a group of three trees on the left. The painting hung over the fireplace in the living room of J.G. Burnaugh home on Grandview Drive, Peoria, IL. Robert Kavanaugh lived there subsequently. Donor Sally Bournholdt is the granddaughter of J.G. Burnaugh.

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Theodore Morgan created original oil landscapes and monotypes from these landscapes. In Cincinnati, he attended the Art Academy as a student of Frank Duveneck, John C. Lutz, Thoma Noble and Lewis Meakin.

He lived and worked in many places including San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, but his primary residence became Washington DC in 1929. There he was a member of the Washington Society of Artists and the National Arts Club. He also lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Among his association memberships were the New York Water Color Club, the San Antonio Art League, and the San Diego Art Association. He itinerantly traveled the West in the 1920s and 30s, spending months in California and Arizona. -- Sources: John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists