Introduction: It could be said he was a man that lived a double life, and in some respects it was like he was a double agent. Gluing the two different careers together resolves a mystery, as he died before the internet age. There was John R. Morgan, the renown industrial designer and Juan Ricardo, the multifaceted talented artist. Both were the same person configured by his Latino childhood heritage and the American Dream as a prominent professional designer. He was born Juan Ricardo Morgan in Guatemala City, 1903. His family immigrated to Canada in 1913 when he was eleven. That same year he won the first prize for a watercolor submitted to the Canadian National Exhibition for his age category. This opened an opportunity to study landscaping painting with the noted Canadian artist, Thomas John Thompson. He studied with Thompson for just a couple of years, as Thompson died at the age of 39 in 1917. So his artist name of “Juan Ricardo” was not made up, it was his name from birth.