|
|
Morris Graves Biographie
|
 |
 |
|
1910 |
|
Born in Fox Valley, OR, the sixth of eight children
|
|
1932 |
|
Graduates from High School in Beaumont, Texas
|
|
1934 |
|
First studio was in Edmonds, shared with Guy Anderson
|
|
1936 |
|
Begins to paint for the Federal Art Project
|
|
1940 |
|
Built studio, “The Rock,” on Fidalgo Island
|
|
1953 |
|
Featured in LIFE magazine's “The Mystic Painters of the Northwest”
|
|
1954 |
|
Built home in Edmonds called “Careläden”
|
|
1962 |
|
published in The Artist’s Voice by Katherine Kuh, Harper & Row
|
|
1974 |
|
The Drawings of Morris Graves published by The Drawings Society, Inc., New York
|
|
2001 |
|
Dies in May at The Lake in Loleta, California
|
|
|
| Expositions sélectionnées |
|
|
|
1996
|
|
“Flower Paintings” exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
|
|
1988
|
|
Exhibition with Schmidt-Bingham in New York, NY, five more through 1996
|
|
1985
|
|
Exhibits in “The Spiritual in Art” at Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
|
|
1983
|
|
Retrospective exhibition travels to Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Oakland Museum, Seattle Art Museum and San Diego Art Museum
|
|
1981
|
|
Exhibition with Willard Gallery, New York, NY
|
|
1975
|
|
Exhibition with Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA, five more through 1996
|
|
1942
|
|
Exhibition at Willard Gallery in New York, NY, thirteen more through 1981
|
|
1942
|
|
Annual Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
|
|
1933
|
|
Exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, eight more through 1996
|
|
|
| Selected Public Collections |
|
|
|
|
|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
|
|
|
|
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
|
|
|
|
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
|
|
|
|
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institute) Washington, DC
|
|
|
|
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
|
|
|
|
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
|
|
|
|
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
|
|
|
|
|
|