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Burial of the New Law

Burial of the New Law

1936

Morris Graves

born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001

Oil on canvas
43 x 38 in. (109.2 x 96.5 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
36.33
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Weird and Whimsical: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection", January 4, 2001 - October 14, 2001

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Morris Graves and Seattle", November 1, 2001 - October 20, 2002

Washington, D.C., "Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye" The Phillips Collection, April 9-May 29, 1983. Circuit: Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, 7/1-8/28/83; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9/15-11/27/83; The Oakland Museum, CA, 1/18-3/25/84; Seattle Art Museum, WA, 4/19-7/8/84; San Diego Museum of Art, CA, 7/24-9/4/84 (04/09/1983 - 09/04/1984)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, "Northwest Traditions", June 29-December 10, 1978. Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 3/19-4/29/79 (06/29/1978 - 11/19/1978)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Henry Art Gallery, and Portland Art Museum, Oregon, "Art of the Thirties: The Pacific Northwest", 1972. (1972)

Tyler, Texas, Tyler Museum of Art, "Inaugral Exhibition, 1971" (1971)

Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries, October 10-November 28, 1971. Introduction by William A. McGonagle. Essay by Allen Porter. Cat. no. 73, p. 49, reproduced.

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, California, 7/4-7/31/48; Los Angeles County Museum, 8/7-9/6/48. (05/21/1948 - 09/06/1948)

Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, "Morris Graves", January 6-27, 1943 Circuit: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 2-28, 1943; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI. (02/02/1943 - 02/28/1943)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Morris Graves: One Person Exhibition", April 8-May 3, 1936. (04/08/1936 - 05/03/1936)

Published ReferencesCalifornia Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Morris Graves: Retropsective Exhibition", 1948, p. 8

The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., "Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye", Ray Kass, pub. by George Braziller, Inc., NY, 1983, pp. 24-25; cat. #12, ill.

Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 28

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, "The Thirities Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries", 1971, ill. p. 43, #85

Tyler Museum of Art, Texas, "American Painting 1900 To The Present", cat., 1971

"Art of the Thirties: The Pacific Northwest", Martha Kingsbury, 1970, University of Washington Press, #11, p. 25 , ill. p. 42, p. 17

Seattle Art Museum, Enagagement Book 1968, Aug. 25-31, 1968

Robbins, T., "The Metaphysical Morris Graves," Seattle magazine, February, 1966, p. 8, ill.

Jan Thompson, interview by Sue Ann Kendall, 1983, Northwest Oral History Project, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution [copy of transcript in Manuscripts Collection, Univ. of Washington Libraries]

University of Oregon Museum of Art, "Morris Graves: A Retrospective", 1966, cat. #8, p. 51; ill. p. 13

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