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Out of the Coulee

Out of the Coulee

1946

Carl A. Morris

American, 1911-1993

Oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 in. (66.7 x 92.1 x 2.5 cm)
Overall h.: 31 1/4 in.
Overall w.: 41 1/2 in.
Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund, 32nd Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists
46.204
Provenance: Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Prize (1946)
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, "What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century", October 15, 1999 - January 23, 2000

Portland , Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Carl Morris Retrospective", September 23 - November 14, 1993, (09/28/1993 - 11/14/1993)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Views and Visions In The Pacific Northwest" June 7 - September (06/07/1990 - 09/02/1990)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Northwest Traditions", June 29-November 19, 1978 (06/29/1978 - 11/19/1978)

American Federation of Arts, "Carl Morris (Retrospective)", circuited to Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, and others, 1960 - 1961 (1960 - 1961)

Portland , Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Carl Morris: A Decade Of Painting In Portland", October 18 - November 16, 1952 (10/18/1952 - 11/16/1952)

Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, "Ten Painters of the Pacific Northwest", circuited to Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany NY; Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; October 1947 - March 1948. (10/1947 - 3/1948)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "32nd Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, 1946" Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Prize (1946)
Published ReferencesKingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 82

American Federation of the Arts, New York, "Carl Morris", essay by Grace McCann Morley, 1960, pp. 8-9, ill. Plate 5, cat. #5

Portland Art Museum, "Carl Morris: A Decade of Painting In Portland", 1952, cat. #9

Prior, Harris K., "The Art of the Pacific Northwest," The League Quarterly, 1949, vol. XXI, no. 2, pp. 22-23, ill.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, "Ten Painters of the Pacific Northwest", 1947, cat. #32, ill. p. 20


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