Artworks by Morris Graves at Gail Severn Gallery on artnet

Morris Graves

(American, 1910–2001)

Morris Graves

Waning Light, War Year '43, 1943

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

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

Exhibitions

2012: "State of Nature," Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: "Past as Prologue – Preview 2012," Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2010: “Morris Graves: Paintings and Drawings 1934-1995,” Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID (solo)
2005 - 2010: "Eloquent Flower VIX - XV," Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2004: Eloquent Flower VIII." Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: “Birds & Flowers” Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID (solo)
2003 - 2004: 2003-4 "Northwest Mythologies: Mark Toby, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
: "The Edge of Tomorrow: Price, Toby and Graves form the 1940s," Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: “Aviary” Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: “Morris Graves,” Foster-White Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
2003: “A Bird in Hand: Morris Graves from the Permanent Collection,”University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR (solo)
: "Eloquent Flower VII" Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2002 - 2003: Morris Graves: Paintings and Drawings 1937-1995," Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID(solo)
2002: “Morris Graves: Reconciling Inner and Outer Realities, 1932-1983,” traveling exhibition(solo)
: "A Tribute to Morris Graves," memorial exhibition at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC(solo)
: "Morris Graves in Seattle," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (solo)
: “The Eloquent Flower, VI” Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: "Offerings From the Lake: Morris Graves in the Balabanis Gallery," Morris Graves Museum of Art, Humbolt Arts Council, Eureka, CA
: 23rd Annual Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2001: "Sounds of the Inner Eye: Mark Toby, Morris Graves, John Cage," Kunsthalle
: Bremen, Germany and Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
2000: "Instruments for a New Navigation," Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY, traveling show (solo)
1999: “The Early Works,” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC(solo)
: “The Early Works,” Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (solo)
: “Past, Present, Future,” 21st Annual Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: “Flora - A Common Thread V”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: “The Early Works,” Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA(solo)
: “The Early Works,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT (solo)
: "Morris Graves: Paintings 1931-1997," Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT (solo)
1998: “A Common Thread”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
: “Animism: Icon, Metaphor, Myth,” Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1997: ArtFair/Seattle, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WA
: “The Eloquent Flower IV,” Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
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
: Annual Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1942: Exhibition at Willard Gallery in New York, NY, thirteen more through 1981
1933: Exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, eight more through 1996

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
: Tate Gallery, London
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Morris Graves

(American, 1910–2001)

Morris Graves

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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