Mid-Century Hibernation

Date1954

Maker Morris Graves American, born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001

Label TextFeeling that the Pacific Northwest, with its growing aircraft industry, was still a place associated with war, and that urban development was changing the face of the wild countryside that he cherished, Graves retreated to Ireland in 1954 and lived there off and on until 1964.

Object number57.145

Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole

Exhibition HistoryIn chronological order: Tokyo, Japan, Bridgestone Gallery, Morris Graves Retrospective Exhibition, June 4- July [6 or 20, conflicting closing dates], 1957. Port Townsend, Washington, Fourth Annual Port Townsend Summer Arts Festival, August 22-25, 1961. 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. 42, 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]. Renton, Washington, Renton Creative Arts Festival, "Invitational Exhibition", 1967. Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Institute of Art, "A View Of Contemporary American Watercolor", 1968. Halifax, Canada, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, "Painters of the Northwest School", 1969. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, "Northwest Traditions", June 29-December 10, 1978. Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, March 19-April 29, 1979. Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, "Early Northwest Watercolors From Northwest Collections", May 30 - July 12, 1987. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Morris Graves and Seattle", November 1, 2001 - October 20, 2002. Published ReferencesThe Art Quarterly, Winter 1957, p. 478

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions20 x 15 3/4 in. (50.8 x 40 cm)

MediumCharcoal and watercolor on Japanese paper mounted on heavy-weight paper