An American original, Will Henry Stevens (1881–1949) was a modernist painter and naturalist who was as inspired by the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman as he was by the work of the American painters John Henry Twachtman and James Abbott McNeill Whistler and the Chinese painters of the Song dynasty.    Stevens was a…

Jackson Cheatham was born in Columbia, Tennessee, in 1945. After serving in the United States Navy, he attended the Atlanta College of Art (ACA, now the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design), where he studied with Keith Rasmussen and Norman Wagner. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at ACA and a master of fine arts…

Born and raised in the South Carolina low country, Jonathan Green graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982 and has sustained a very successful career ever since. His paintings can be found in major museum, corporate, and private collections around the world. He is represented in the Morris Museum’s permanent collection by nearly forty works…

The consensus of opinion holds that 2020 was not a great year for anyone or anything. A noteworthy exception may be the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art. The current exhibition of highlights from this year’s more than two hundred acquisitions, on display in the museum’s Coggins Gallery, is a celebration—of the art of the South and the artists who…