Publications
The following resources are about Morris Graves’ life and works and are endorsed by The Morris Graves Foundation, posthumously, or were approved personally by Morris Graves during his life. Earlier publications about Mr. Graves are still being collated for inclusion on this site.
Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical
By Patricia Junker
2014, University of Washington Press
ISBN: 978-0-932216-72-4
Exhibit information: seattleartmuseum.org
Morris Graves: Selected Letters
Edited by Vicki Halper and Lawrence Fong
2013, University of Washington Press
ISBN: 978-0-295-99214-3, hardback
Washington.edu/uwpress
Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream
By Steve McQuiddy
2013, Oregon State University Press
ISBN: 978-0-87071-625-6
osupress.oregonstate.edu
Cover image: Sea, Fish and Constellation, c. 1940
Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson
By Sheryl Conkelton and Laura Landau
2003, University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0-295-98322-1
Exhibit information: tacomaartmuseum.org
Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art
By Deloris Tarzan Ament with Photographs by Mary Randlett
2002, University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0-295-98147-4
Morris Graves: Flower Paintings
By Theodore F. Wolff
1994, University of Washington Press
ISBN 0-295-97379-x
Washington.edu/uwpress
Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye
By Ray Kass
1983, Braziller, in association with the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 0-8076-1068-2, hardback; 0-8076-1069-0, paperback
The Drawings of Morris Graves
Ida E Rubin (editor) and John Cage (introduction)
1974, The New York Graphic Society
ISBN: 0-316-19305-4
Morris Graves
By Frederick S.Wight (Author), Morris Graves (Artist), John I. H. Baur (Author), Duncan Phillips (Author)
1956, University of California Press
ASIN: B0000CJFNG
LOCCC 56-6990
Collections of Original Artwork by Morris Graves
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Illinois
Website
Hirshhorn Museum
Washington, D.C.
Website
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Website
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California
Website
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
Website
Morris Graves Museum of Art
Eureka, California
Administered by Humboldt Arts Council
Website
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts
Website
Museum of Northwest Art
La Conner, Washington
Website
Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website
The Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
Website
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
Website
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, Washington
Website
Smithsonian Art Art Museum
Washington, D.C.
Website
Whitney Museum of Art
New York, New York
Website
Archives of Letters and Personal Papers
Online Resources
Seattle Art Museum pages:
Biography, photos, paintings
Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical
Wikipedia.com article on Morris Graves
HistoryLink.org (Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History) article on Morris Graves
New York Times Obituary of Morris Graves
ArtNet.com listing for Morris Graves
Morris Graves on Pinterest (user account required to see all content)
“We worship light and dark, and unifying gray, until it disappears.”
—Morris Graves