Leland Stanford Morgan


Leland Stanford Morgan was an American commercial artist. He began in 1910 in San Francisco and eventually moved across the bay to Oakland where he remained for the rest of his life. Morgan is known for his illustrations of sheet music covers by publishers mostly in the San Francisco Bay area.

Career

At age 17, Morgan graduated from the California Business College in San Francisco in December 1903. In 1930, Morgan began teaching Fashion Art and Commercial Art at the Fox Art Institute and School of Commercial Art, founded in 1921 in Oakland by Elton Villers Frederick Fox. In 1930, when he began teaching there, they renamed it the Fox-Morgan Art Institute and Commercial Art School. Fox returned to his native home in Victoria, Australia, in 1935, and Ruel Curtis Dean became associated with the school for two years. In 1937, the school was renamed Art Institute on the 3rd floor at 339 15th Street, Oakland, and Morgan became its head. Notable alumni of the Fox-Morgan School include Dong Kingman.

Selected sheet music covers

Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit, New York
  • "The Rah-Rah Boy" ;
  • "Everybody Two-Step" ;
Frederick V. Bowers Music Publishers, Inc., New York
  • "Kuu Loke Ula Ula, " ;
Buell Music, San Francisco
  • "She Sang Aloha to Me" ;
  • "Sierra Sue", a song of the hills ;
  • "Bonnie Bell", three step ;
  • "Smile a Little Smile For Me" ;
  • "In My Little Lovemobile" ;
  • "Sweet Is the Night, My Lady", Hawaiian serenade ;
  • "Antonio, My Boy" ;
McKiernan Publishing, San Jose, California
  • "Good-Bye Good Luck Old Hawaii" ;
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco
  • "Fair Hawaii" ;
  • "My Waikiki Ukulele Girl" ;
M. Witmark & Sons, New York
  • "My Honolulu Honey Lou" ;
Harry L. Newman, Grand Opera House, Chicago
  • "I Want To Meet That Man"
Lorden Music, San Francisco
  • "The Island of Cuddle and Squeeze" ;
Nat. Goldstein Music Pub. Co., San Francisco
  • "A Little Farther" ;
Art Hickman, San Francisco
Daniels & Wilson, music publishers, San Francisco
  • "Dreamy Moon" ;
  • "Bad Bad Baby"
  • "Sweet Daddy" ;
  • "Down in Hindustan": song of the East ;
  • "Oriental", fox trot ;
  • "My Sweet Virginia Rose" ;
F.G. Rempe, Oakland, California
  • "Lovely Hawaiian Moon" ;
J.G. Dewey, San Francisco
  • "Over The Top, The Top, We Go" ;
J.A. MacMeekin, New York
  • "Hawaiian Breezes" ;

Family

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