Wallace Morgan

Upon graduation from high school, he returned to his birthplace, New York City, to pursue a career in art.

During this period, he developed the ability to render a faithful picture of nature with little need for preliminary sketches, an essential skill for a newspaper illustrator who had to convey to readers the image of an event quickly and accurately.

Shortly thereafter, Collier's commissioned him and Julian Bond to tour the United States and report their findings in words and pictures.

World War I and Morgan's selection as an AEF artist brought an early end to a third trip.

A number of his pictures also reflect his apparent interest in the many columns of troops, animals, and equipment that moved ceaselessly across the battlefields of France.