Burial of the New Law

Date1936

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

Object number36.33

Provenancethe artist; purchased by Richard Fuller for the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1936

Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Morris Graves: One Person Exhibition, April 8- May 3, 1936. Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Morris Graves, January 6 - 27, 1943 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, February 2-28, 1943; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts). San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Morris Graves: Retrospective Exhibition, May 21 - June 29, 1948 (Santa Barbara, California, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 4 - 31, 1948; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, August 8 - September 6, 1948). 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. Tyler, Texas, Tyler Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, 1971. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Henry Art Gallery, and Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Art of the Thirties: The Pacific Northwest, 1972. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Northwest Traditions, June 29 - December 10, 1978 (Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, March 19 - April 29, 1979). Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye, April 9 - May 29, 1983 (Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, July 1- August 28, 1983; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 15 - November 27, 1983; The Oakland Museum, California, January 18 - March 25, 1984; Seattle Art Museum, Washington, April 19 - July 8, 1984; San Diego Museum of Art, California, July 24 - September 4, 1984. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Weird and Whimsical: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, January 4 - October 14, 2001. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Morris Graves and Seattle, November 1, 2001 - October 20, 2002.Published ReferencesMorris Graves: Retropsective Exhibition. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1948; p. 8. Robbins, T., "The Metaphysical Morris Graves," Seattle Magazine (February1966), p. 8, ill. Morris Graves: A Retrospective. University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1966; cat. no. 8, p. 51; ill. p. 13. Seattle Art Museum, Enagagement Book 1968, Aug. 25-31, 1968. Kingsbury, Martha. Art of the Thirties: The Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970; no. 11, p. 25 , ill. p. 42, p. 17. The Thirities Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1971; ill. p. 43, no. 85. American Painting 1900 To The Present. Tyler Museum of Art, 1971. Kingsbury, Martha, and Sarah Clark. Northwest Traditions. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1978; p. 28. Kass, Ray. Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye. New York: George Braziller, Inc. and Phillips Collection,1983; pp. 24-25; cat. no. 12, 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].

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions43 x 38 in. (109.2 x 96.5 cm)

MediumOil on canvas