Kiss Impressions: My Love Affair With Lithography

Author: Morgan, J. Tom, Jr.
Title: Kiss Impressions: My Love Affair With Lithography
Publication: Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1983

Description: Hardcover. 12" X 8 1/2". xxiv, 224pp. Rubbing, bumps and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Bump to tail of spine. MISSING FRONT ENDPAPER. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this "autobiography and history of Litho-Krome."

James Thomas Morgan (known as J. Tom Morgan) was born in Columbus, Georgia on February 7, 1911 to James Thomas Morgan and Frances G. Harris. His first wife was Lillie Patterson born on the 4th of July, 1935 in Washington, D.C. She died in 1988. They had two children, James Thomas Morgan III (1935-1995) and Frederick P. Morgan. Morgan married his second wife, Marietta Isabelle Solimeo, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 4, 1953. After having left Columbus to pursue a career as an artist, he returned to Columbus to make a career as a commercial artist, buying Commercial Printers Incorporated (formerly Walton Printing Company), at the courthouse door at its bankruptcy auction in 1933. The company was renamed Litho-Krome. He ran the company until Hallmark bought it in 1979. J. Tom Morgan died on December 30, 1999 and is buried in Parkhill Cemetery in Columbus, along with his second wife, Marietta Isabelle Morgan and his son J. Tom Morgan III.(Columbusstate . edu). Fair.

Seller ID: 15713

Subject: Art, Architecture, & Design, Biography & Memoir



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