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Photo: Susan Cole
Drawing for Eagle of Inner Eye
Photo: Susan Cole

Drawing for Eagle of Inner Eye

Date1941
Maker Morris Graves American, born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001
Object number46.217
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole
Exhibition HistorySeattle, 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) Pullman, Washington, Washington State University Fine Arts Gallery, "Northwest Painters Invitational", April 14-May 4, 1975. (04/14/1975 - 05/04/1975) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Bird Sanctuary", August 17, 1995 - February 11, 1996 (08/17/1995 - 02/11/1996) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, "Painters Of The Northwest School", 1969 (1969) Renton, Washington, Renton Creative Arts Festival, "Invitational Exhibition", 1967 (1967) Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon Museum of Art, "Morris Graves: A Retrospective", February 8 - March 13, 1966 (02/08/1966 - 03/16/1966) Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Galleries of American Paintings, Valparaiso University, Art of the Northwest Coast, January 28-February 24, 1962. Cat. no. 9. Exhibition listing. [Seattle Art Museum lent 27 paintings from permanent collection]. Washington Association of Museums Directors circuit, "Morris Graves' Drawings", 1960 - 1961 (1960 - 1961) 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)
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (26 x 34.9cm) Full sheet: 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.6cm)
MediumTransparent and opaque watercolor on laid paper
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1944
Object number: 59.175
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1957
Object number: 2005.172
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1935 or 1936
Object number: 2016.16
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1940
Object number: 41.49
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1941
Object number: 2009.52.103
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1941
Object number: 2009.52.15
Morris Graves
ca. 1932
Object number: 2009.52.24
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1941
Object number: 2005.168
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
Probably 1939
Object number: 2009.52.13
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1943
Object number: 46.223