Resources
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, "What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century", October 15, 1999 - January 23, 2000
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Morris Graves and Seattle", November 1, 2001 - October 20, 2002
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Night Sounds: Nocturnal Visions of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves - A Northwest Summer", May 4, 2006 - October 15, 2006 (5/4/2006 - 10/15/2006)
The American Federation of the Arts, co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee of the University of Georgia, "American Paintings: The 1940's", Circuit: University of Georgia Department of Art, Athens; Roberson Center for the Arts & Sciences, Binghamton, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Kent School - Boys, Kent, CT; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Barcardi Bldg., Bacardi Imports, Miami, FL; Greenville County Museum of Art, SC; Nassau Community College, Firehouse Gallery, Garden City, Long Island
San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Morris Graves Retrospective Exhibition", May 21-June 29, 1948. Circuit: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 7/4-7/31/48; Los Angeles County Museum, 8/7-9/6/48. (05/21/1948 - 09/06/1948)
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, [Northwest Artists], 1950. Michigan Circuit: Michigan State College, East Lansing, 1950; Albion College, 1950; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, 1951; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 1951; Saginaw Museum, 1951; Flint Institute of Arts, 1951; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1951. (1950 - 1951)
Bloomington, Illinois, Withers Public Library, "Northwest Artists", 1951 (1951)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, "Survey Of American Paintings", 1955 (1955)
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Morris Graves Retrospective Exhibition", organized by the Art Galleries of the University of Callifornia, Los Angeles, February 28-April 8, 1956. Circuit: The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., 4/15-5/7/56; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 5/19-6/30/56; Des Moines Art Center, IA, 7/21-8/26/56; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Art Galleries of the University of California, Los Angeles, 11/5-12/2/56; Art Center in La Jolla, CA, 12/10/56-1/15/57; Seattle Art Museum, WA, 2/7-3/10/57. (02/28/1956 - 03/10/1957)
Tokyo, Japan, The Bridgestone Gallery, "[Morris Graves] Retrospective Exhibition", June 4-July 8, 1957. (06/04/1957 - 07/08/1957)
New York, New York, American Federation of Arts Exhibition at Wildenstein Gallery, "The American Vision", 1957. (1957)
Brussels, Belgium, Brussels World Fair, U.S. Pavilion, April 17-October 19, 1958 (04/17/1958 - 10/19/1958)
Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Galleries, "Art Of The Northwest Coast", 1962 (1962)
Balboa, California, The Pavilion Gallery, Morris Graves Retrospective, Organized by the Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, California, and the Newport Harbor Service League, March 1- 31, 1963. Text by Frederick S. Wight. Cat. no. 23, n.p., reproduced. [Text adapted from Morris Graves by Frederick S. Wight, et al., published by the University of California Press in book form, and as catalogue for exhibition organized by UCLA Art Galleries, 1956].
Washington, D.C., The White House Festival of the Arts, June 14, 1965; and National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (06/14/1965 - 06/14/1965)
Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, "Morris Graves", November 2-30, 1971 (11/02/1971 - 11/30/1971)
Spokane, Washington, Expo '74, "Our Land, Our Sea, Our Water", 1974 (1974)
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, "Northwest Traditions", June 29-December 10, 1978. Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, IA, 3/19-4/29/79 (06/29/1978 - 04/29/1979)
La Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, "Northwest Art: Shaped By Hand, Shaped By The Spirit", September 28 - December 31, 1995, (09/28/1995 - 12/31/1995)
St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis, "200 Years Of American Painting" , April 1-May 31, 1964 (04/01/1964 - 05/31/1964)
Published ReferencesSan Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Morris Graves: Retrospective Exhibition", 1948, cat., p. 14
Art News, Vol. 50, No. 4, 1951, p. 4
Art News, Vol. 55, No. 1, March, 1956
Art Galleries of the University of California, Los Angeles, "Morris Graves", Frederick S. Wight, John I. H. Baur, Duncan Phillips, 1956, pp. 41-42, 64; ill. p. 42
American Federation of Arts, "The American Vision", 1957, cat., No. 37
Eliot, A., "300 Years Of American Painting: 1957", p. 269, ill. p. 270
Expos. Univ. & Internat'l, Brussels, Belgium, "50 Ans D'art Moderne", cat., 1958, No. 112, pl. 162.
Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Galleries, "Art Of Northwest Coast", 1962, cat. listing, no. 10, ill.
Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, California, "Morris Graves Retrospective", cat., 1963, #23, ill.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, "200 Years Of American Painting", cat., 1964, p. 50.
American Federation of Arts, "American Painting: The 1940's", cat., 1967, p. 3 and #18.
Koenig, John F., "L'Ecole de Seattle," Information & Documents, Services Americains d'Information et de Relations Culturelles, #314: January, 1972, p. 23.
Frankenstein, Alfred , Expo '74, Spokane, Washington, "Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water", cat., 1974, p. 62, #130.
Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 31
Fisher, Leonard Everett, "Masterpieces Of American Painting", Bison Books, Corp., Greenwich, Connecticut: Fall, 1985
Goddard, Donald, ed., "American Painting", Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Southport, CT: Fall, 1990. French edition, December, 1991
Govenar, Alan, "Ed Hardy: Beyond Skin", pg 202, teNeuss Publishing Group, 2010
