Kathleen Morris; Active in Arts Community

Kathleen Morris, 91, illustrator for the Army and aerospace manufacturers. The former Kathleen Cotton was born in San Antonio, the daughter of a cartoonist father and landscape artist mother. Morris studied painting and fabric design at Otis Art Institute. She married sculptor George Stanley, who fashioned the Oscar statuette, and with him attended the first Academy Awards presentation at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1928. Together the couple entertained Los Angeles’ artistic community of the 1920s and ‘30s, including Merle Armitage, Harwell Harris, Dorothy Jeakins, Richard Neutra and Millard Sheets. Later married to a studio publicist, Morris in recent years recorded an oral history for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On June 5 in Sacramento.