Graves, Morris

Graves, Morris

▪ American painter
in full  Morris Cole Graves 
born August 28, 1910, Fox Valley, Oregon, U.S.
died May 5, 2001, Loleta, California

      American painter best known for introspective works that present a mystical view of nature. His style was greatly influenced by the three trips he made to East Asia between 1928 and 1930, and, like Mark Tobey (Tobey, Mark), another painter of the Northwest school, Graves had a deep interest in Asian art and religion, including Zen Buddhism (Zen) and Daoism.

      In 1936 the Seattle Art Museum presented Graves's first one-man show. About 1937 he turned from oils to tempera or gouache, which he applied to Chinese paper. He then made some of his best-known works, including Blind Bird (1940) and Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye (1941). He frequently used a calligraphic style in which delicate white lines appear against a dark background. His art received international attention in 1942 when 31 of his works appeared in an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Thereafter Graves's oil paintings and watercolours were highly sought after by collectors and won numerous prizes, including two at the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1947 and 1948.

      A 1947 study Graves made of the Asian art in the Honolulu Academy of Art inspired his series of paintings depicting Chinese bronzes made that same year. In 1954–56 he painted the birds and animals of Ireland. Shortly thereafter Graves left the United States to make his home outside Dublin, to escape, as he explained, “the onrush and outrage of machine noise.” Before he left he painted Spring with Machine-Age Noises—No. 3 (1957), a visual cacophony that seems to sweep over a stretch of grass.

      In 1964 he again relocated, this time to Loleta, California, where he bought 25 acres of redwood forest and created an idyllic environment for himself, complete with a small lake, Zen-inspired buildings, and gardens. Inspired by his surroundings, Graves often depicted flowers in his later work.

Additional Reading
Ray Kass, Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye (1983).

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