Collage Portraits
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2020, found paper collage, 34″44″
George Herbert Walker Bush
2019, found paper collage, 37×42″
LBJ
2019, found paper collage, 30″x40
Albert Einstein (Theory)
2019, found paper collage, 48″ x 36″
TR 2018
2018, found paper collage, 35″ x 50″
Legend
2018, found paper collage, 34″ x 40″
Sphinx
2018, found paper collage, 30″ x 48″
Imagine
2018, found paper collage, 30″ x 40″
A Lad Insane
2016, found paper collage, 36″ x 54″
Van Gogh
2016, found paper collage, 44″ x 44″
Muhammad Ali
2015, found paper collage, 40″ x 50″
A. Lincoln
2015, found paper collage, 13×18
Abraham Lincoln
2014, found paper collage, 30″ x 36″
Teddy Roosevelt
2014, found paper collage, 30″ x 36
Napoleon
2013, found paper collage, 45″ x 82″
(Photo Credit: Elyse Defoor)
Statue of Liberty
2013, found paper collage, 36″ x 50″
Nathan Fillion
2012, found paper collage including elements of the actor’s career, 14″ x 17″
A commission from the Discovery Channel as a gift to the star of television’s “Firefly” and “Castle.”
Andy Warhol
2012, found paper collage, 50″ x 50″
Albert Einstein
2011, found paper collage, 36″ x 50″
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2011, found paper collage, 36″ x 50″
John F. Kennedy
2011, found paper collage, 36″ x 50″
Roald Amundsen
2011, found paper collage, 14″ x 17″
Theodore Roosevelt
2011, found paper collage, 35″ x 50″
photo credit: Jason Varney
Emily Dickinson
2011, found paper collage, 35″ x 50″
Charles Darwin
2011, found paper collage, 35″ x 50″
Andrew Jackson
2011, found paper collage, 52″ x 68″
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2010, found paper collage, 22″ x 30″
Jesus
2009, found paper collage, 44″ x 54″
Amelia Earhart
2009, found paper collage, 14″ x 17″
Bob Dylan
2009, found paper collage, 14″ x 17″
Einstein (black and white)
2009, found paper collage, 17″ x 20″
Geronimo
2009, found paper collage, 17″ x 14″
Abraham Lincoln (black & white)
2009, found paper collage, 17″ x 14″
Ronald Reagan
2009, found paper collage, 14″ x 17″
Frederick Douglass
2008, found paper collage, 40″ x 60″
Abraham Lincoln
2008, found paper collage, 14″ x 17″
Double Warhol
2008, found paper collage, 40″ x 29″
Susan B. Anthony
2008, found paper collage, 30″ x 42″
Mitterrand
(from the “Men in Newspapers in Newspaper” series)
1983-1987, newspaper collage, 32″ x 41″
Statue of Liberty (Modern Democracy)
1986, American dollar bills, 11″ x 17″
And of note…
Australia
2017-18, found paper collage, 40″ x 30″ (private collection)
A collector from “Down Under” gathered five large bags of recyclable materials, including lots of fastfood packaging, from across her homeland and shipped them to the studio with a request that they be fashioned into a portrait of her nation, as viewed from outer space.
September-October 2018 issue of Yankee Magazine features 2011 collage portrait of Emily Dickinson
photo credit: Jason Varney
To see the Yankee Magazine article, click the image of Dickinson above.
Winner of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs 2018 Poetweet contest
The department’s annual poetry contest, held in conjunction of National Poetry Month and now in its ninth year, uses Twitter to share and recognize a wide range of poetry. Contest judges included the executive directors of the Academy of American Poets and the National Poetry Society. In announcing the winners, Morse’s haiku, along with four other winning poems, was read aloud by New York City’s First Lady at a ceremony at Bryant Park at the New York Public Library.
The haiku, focused on the common house sparrow, was originally created for a limited edition calendar published by BH Communications in 2016. For that project Morse merged a QR code containing the haiku with an original 2015 collage. To read the haiku, scan the above image with a QR code reader. For more details on the Department of Cultural Affairs poetry initiatives, click on the sparrow.