The Morris Museum’s collections have unusual depth and richness in types, styles, and mediums of art. For example, the museum’s holdings of folk art, photography, American impressionist painting, and studio art glass are all equally varied and extensive.  One of the more intriguing and previously unexplored groups of paintings in the collection is made up of artists’ self-portraits. It is…

A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Joseph H. Sulkowski began his formal studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before moving on to the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied from 1974 until 1979.   His time at the League led to an apprenticeship with master painter Frank Mason, who became his mentor. Mason, who…

Jim Lyle, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and raised in Brightwaters, New York, earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Arizona in 1967. He went on to earn a master of fine arts degree with a concentration in ceramics from Tulane University in 1969 and pursued additional study at Long Island University and Alfred University. He joined…