[2] His paintings of rice farms in Vermilion Parish have been widely exhibited, from Paris to Los Angeles.
Elemore Morgan Jr. was born on August 6, 1931, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he was an only child, and he was raised on his grandfather's farm.
At Louisiana State University and studied art, under the tutelage of Caroline Durieux, Ralston Crawford, and David LeDoux.
[2] In 1959 he returned to Louisiana,[2] renting a second-floor apartment in Lafayette, one flight up from author John Kennedy Toole.
[2] Morgan was renowned for his en plein air landscape paintings often in the heart of the rice growing region of southwest Louisiana.
Many of Morgan’s landscapes were acrylic on oddly shaped Masonite panels, cut to fit his vision of the land, which he felt were integral to the design and composition of his works.