James Morgan DENNIS

James Morgan DENNIS
aka Morgan Dennis
1892
1960

An American etcher who had studied in his native Boston, Provincetown and with the FORBES SCHOOL in Newlyn.

He was especially interested in drawing dogs, and was the creator of the Black and White Scottie ads for beer and liquor companies.  Abroad, in the 1930s, he also spent time working in Ireland. He died in Florida.

media

Painter and etcher

exhibitions

Fine Art Society 1936

references

AskART.com (illus)

Green (2002) Posing the Model

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists