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Moon Rising

Moon Rising

1943

Morris Graves

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

Gouache on paper
26 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (67.3 x 77.5 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
46.218
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryBellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, "Luminous: Light as Material, Medium and Metaphor", December 4, 2000 - June 30, 2001

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

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real", May 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, 1948 (1948)

San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Morris Graves: Retrospective Exhibition", May 12-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)

Oakland, California, Mills College Art Gallery, North-West Coast Painters, February 15-March 7, 1948.

Tokyo, Japan, The Bridgestone Gallery, "Retrospective Exhibition", June 4 - July 8, 1957 (06/04/1957 - 07/08/1957)

New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Morris Graves: Retrospective Exhibition", organized by the Art Galleries of the University of California, 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, 7/21-8/2656; 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)

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)

Detroit, Michigan, Artrain, Inc., "Unique Heritage: The West Coast", Michigan, California, Oregon, Washington & Alaska, September 1, 1982-October 11, 1983(09/01/1982 - 10/11/1983)

Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul Art Center, "Paintings and Drawings By Morris Graves", October 10-November 3, 1963. (08/10/1963 - 11/03/1963)
Published ReferencesClysdale, Heather Colburn, The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, "Journal", Autumn 2008, pg. 13

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