Figurative artist and teacher, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, America, who over the years “mined a number of fairly nameable subjects like Identity, Desire, Memory, Creation, Choice”. From 1972, she produced several large cycles of mythic figures. From 1943–7 Morreau attended the Susan Miller Dorsey High School and Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles; 1946, began studying with Rico Lebrun at Jepson’s Art Institute; 1947–9, was at Jepson’s and Los Angeles City College; 1949, travelled to Paris and New York; 1950; returned to Los Angeles City College and Jepson’s; 1953, moved to Berkeley, where she was a research assistant at the University of California for about seven years; in 1958, gained a diploma in medical illustration there; postgraduate studies in etching followed, at Berkeley and San Francisco Art Institute; 1967, moved to Massachusetts, in 1969 making lithography studies with Herb Fox in Boston, then moved to London in 1972.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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