An author and illustrator of juvenile books, Dudley Morris, born in New York City, was Chair of the Art Department at Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He studied at Andover Academy, the Art Students League and Yale University. His paintings are among the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art, the Yale Museum of Art, the Princeton Museum of Art, The Presbyterian Hospital, New York Hospital, and the State Museum of New Jersey.

He did murals for the Harkness Pavilion and Children’s Hospitals in New York City. He was the author of four children’s books, one of which “The Truck that Flew” became a movie. He had a number of one-man shows of his paintings at the Madison Gallery and Walker Gallery in New York City, Gallery 100 in Princeton, Munson Gallery in Chatham, Mass., and Dickson Gallery. He also exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Carnegie Art Institute, Cleveland and St. Louis Museums, Nye Gallery, New York World’s Fair, San Francisco Exposition and the Rhode Island School of Design.