Biographical Information

Born: 1941 Oakland, California

Education: Art Department Oakland City Collage 1960 - 1964

California College of Arts and Crafts 1956 - 1957- 1958 - 1965 -

1967 - 1970 Certificate in Painting (1971)

Current Address:

941 Jackson St. Benicia, California 94510.

Telephone: 707-746-7679

email art@sammymorse.com

web www.sammymorse.com

Solo Exhibitions

Gallery Twelve @ 812 Kellogg St. (1998)
Suisun, CA.

Lucien Labault Art Gallery (1970)
San Francisco CA.

Yelland Gallery (1962)
Oakland, CA.

Triton Museum of Art (2002)

Group Exhibitions

Works/San Jose (1999)
San Jose, CA.

Triton Museum of Art (1998)
Santa Clara, CA. (1998)

(2001)

Oakland Art Museurm

the painted flower (1961)

Oakland Art Museurm Collectors Gallery (1965-1968)
Oakland, CA.

United States Department of State (1995-1999)

Art in Embassies Program
Washington, D C.

The Epperson Gallery (1999)
Crockett, CA.

Harbor Gallery (1963 - 1964)
Oakland, CA.

Gallery Concord (199I-1992-1994)
Concord, Ca.

California Works Exhibit (1995)
Sacramento, CA.

City Hall After Columbus (1992)
Benicia, CA.

By Virtue of Age a "Arts Benicia " Show (1995)
Benicia, CA.

Blue Skies All Night Long Art show and Blues
( 1995 -1996)
Benicia, CA. painting by Sam Morse Blues by Oakland Sam

 
Collections

Anomaly, Inc.
Benicia, CA.

Avalanche, inc.
Benicia, CA.

National Neon Institute.
Benicia, CA.

The D. Grant Collection
Berkeley, CA.

Vincent Price
Chicago, Ill.

Collection of Kokusai Electric America Inc.
San Jose, CA.

The Peter Semansky Collection
Benicia, CA.

Awards

Honorable Mention
Concord Art Association 28th Anniversary show

Best in Show Animals Only @ Gallery Concord
Concord, CA.

Award of Merit California Work

CA.

Scholarship

California College of Art and Crafts

( 1956 - 1958 - 1963 )

California School of fine Art (1960)

Mentor

Black curley hair, gold teeth and a pair of sun glasses,

this was my mentor, his handle was lightnin, his name was Sam

Hopkins. He was not a Painter.

He was a story teller in the blues

Sam died a few years back but his music lives on,

and I know he was a artist in all ways. For he was real ,under the

story he love to play the Blues and we know art is the love of play.

One night after the show Sam got in our 1953 Studebaker to go ride

around the hills of Oakland and play the blues with my friend Conrad

and I.

But the club owner took Sam's hand and pulled him from the car.

"You can't go with these boys, you must play for me tomorrow", and

took Sam away. I always wonder what that night would had been like,

but is more the real Blues this way. I saw Sam play when ever I could

and we would talk some times between sets

but we naver got to play the blues with one another.

God bless him.

I try to be as real in my Art as Lightnin was.