Resources

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

Archives of Morris Graves’ personal correspondence and papers are located at the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Libraries near Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene Oregon.
Knight Library, Special Collections, Eugene, OR
Contact: libref@uoregon.edu   The finding aid for this collection can be downloaded at:  http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv90567/pdf
Additional archives of Morris Graves’ personal correspondence and papers, as well as those of several close friends and companions, including Richard Gilky, Richard Svare, and Jan Thompson, are located at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, Seattle, Washington.   http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections

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