Rowena Morrill
Rowena A. Morrill (born 1944) is an artist who is well known in the world of science-fiction and fantasy illustration. During a career that has spanned over 20 years, her paintings have appeared on hundreds of book covers, on calendars, portfolios, trading cards and in magazines such as Playboy and Omni.
Books of her own work have included The Fantastic Art of Rowena, Imagine (in France), Imagination (in Germany), and The Art of Rowena. She has also been included in many anthologies, such as, Tomorrow and Beyond and Infinite Worlds. Morrill began her career in New York City where she lived for 16 years. She currently lives in upstate New York.
Alleged plagiarism of Morrill's work
In 2003, a Flash animation slideshow titled Family Art Corner was released anonymously, alleging that a woman named Jan McRae had plagiarized the work of many artists, including Morrill, for reproduction in proselytization tracts printed by the Children of God cult.[1][2] After the slideshow was released, both McRae and Karen Zerby, leader of the Children of God, acknowledged that McRae had copied the work of others, and McRae admitted wrongdoing.[3]
References
- ^ Plagiarized art at xFamily.org
- ^ A Spanish version of the slideshow: Part 1, Part 2
- ^ Which Comes First: The Revelation or the Artwork?, xFamily.org
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