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Leland Morgan


Leland Stanford Morgan

Leland Stanford Morgan (aka Le Morgan; 9 June 1886 San Francisco – 12 August 1981 Oakland, California) was an American commercial artist. He began in 1910 in San Francisco and eventually moved across the bay to Oakland where he remained for the rest of his life. Morgan is known for his illustrations of sheet music covers by publishers mostly in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Career

At age 17, Morgan graduated from the California Business College in San Francisco in December 1903. In 1930, Morgan began teaching Fashion Art and Commercial Art at the Fox Art Institute and School of Commercial Art, founded in 1921 in Oakland by Elton Villers Frederick Fox (1893–1970). In 1930, when he began teaching there, they renamed it the Fox-Morgan Art Institute and Commercial Art School. Fox returned to his native home in Victoria, Australia, in 1935, and Ruel Curtis Dean became associated with the school for two years. In 1937, the school was renamed Art Institute on the 3rd floor at 339 15th Street, Oakland, and Morgan became its head. Notable alumni of the Fox-Morgan School include Dong Kingman.

Selected sheet music covers

Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit, New York

  • "The Rah-Rah Boy" (1908 & 1911); OCLC 81894686, 843076603
  • "Everybody Two-Step" (1911); OCLC 793326485, 9968568

    • Frederick V. Bowers Music Publishers, Inc., New York

  • "Kuu Loke Ula Ula, (My Red Red Rose)" (1917); OCLC 466172206, 498480629

    • Buell Music, San Francisco

  • "She Sang Aloha to Me" (1915); OCLC 26008160
  • "Sierra Sue", a song of the hills (1916); OCLC 801718663
  • "Bonnie Bell", three step (1916); OCLC 772288511
  • "Smile a Little Smile For Me" (1917); OCLC 497148706
  • "In My Little Lovemobile" (1917); OCLC 26004251
  • "Sweet Is the Night, My Lady", Hawaiian serenade (1917); OCLC 775376739, 497148715
  • "Antonio, My Boy" (1918); OCLC 192135975

    • McKiernan Publishing, San Jose, California

  • "Good-Bye Good Luck Old Hawaii" (1916); OCLC 20332143

    • Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco

  • "Fair Hawaii" (1913); OCLC 708090878
  • "My Waikiki Ukulele Girl" (1916); OCLC 20331816

    • M. Witmark & Sons, New York

  • "My Honolulu Honey Lou" (1911); OCLC 688486797

    • Harry L. Newman, Grand Opera House, Chicago

  • "I Want To Meet That Man" ("Who Wrote That Melody") (1913)

    • Lorden Music, San Francisco

  • "The Island of Cuddle and Squeeze" (1914); OCLC 60585333

    • Nat. Goldstein Music Pub. Co., San Francisco

  • "A Little Farther" (1914); OCLC 643088548

    • Art Hickman, San Francisco

  • "Rose Room Fox Trot", song without words (1917); OCLC 26004948

    • Daniels & Wilson, music publishers, San Francisco

  • "Dreamy Moon" (1917); OCLC 27308287
  • "Bad Bad Baby" (1917)
  • "Sweet Daddy" (1917); OCLC 51103631, 861077239
  • "Down in Hindustan": song of the East (1917); OCLC 857960723
  • "Oriental" ("Some Day in Araby"), fox trot (1918); OCLC 26005914
  • "My Sweet Virginia Rose" (1918); OCLC 39813171

    • F.G. Rempe, Oakland, California

  • "Lovely Hawaiian Moon" (1917); OCLC 44129328

    • J.G. Dewey, San Francisco

  • "Over The Top, The Top, We Go" (1918); OCLC 78314279

    • J.A. MacMeekin, New York

  • "Hawaiian Breezes" (1920); OCLC 20266773

    • Family

    Spouse

    Morgan married Ruth Vivian Holloway and had two children, Alan Edgar Morgan, (April 1, 1922 to December 26, 2015), an architect based in the San Francisco Bay area, and Merele Marcella Morgan (1919–2004) who married John Benton Saunders (1917–2010).

    References

    Leland Stanford Morgan Wikipedia
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