Here is a link to great CD by the American preacher/singer/artist Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980). I love stuff like this. Sr. Gertrude lived in New Orleans, and would roam the streets of the French Quarter in a black dress and white collar with a megaphone shouting, and sometimes chanting, the gospel messages through it. Often she would keep time with a tambourine. She was involved in numerous charitable works, founding two orphanages, starting churches, and starting a food bank. In 1957 she had some sort of mystical experience in which she felt that God was calling her to become the "bride of Christ", so she started wearing a white nurse's uniform (white, pure), filled her home with white furniture, and began painting even more prolifically. Her primitive, apocalyptic art is particularly interesting.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Sister Gertrude Morgan
Here is a link to great CD by the American preacher/singer/artist Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980). I love stuff like this. Sr. Gertrude lived in New Orleans, and would roam the streets of the French Quarter in a black dress and white collar with a megaphone shouting, and sometimes chanting, the gospel messages through it. Often she would keep time with a tambourine. She was involved in numerous charitable works, founding two orphanages, starting churches, and starting a food bank. In 1957 she had some sort of mystical experience in which she felt that God was calling her to become the "bride of Christ", so she started wearing a white nurse's uniform (white, pure), filled her home with white furniture, and began painting even more prolifically. Her primitive, apocalyptic art is particularly interesting.
