Eagle of the Inner Eye
Date1941
Maker
Morris Graves
American, born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001
Label TextThe eagle—emblematic in Christianity of the word of God—here is presented as at one with the rock. Rendered in dry white gouache, the bird appears almost calcified, its red, defiant eyes a stunning contrast to its immobile, immaterial body. Rockbound, the bird has been stilled and silenced. The enigma is, will it survive?
Object number2009.52.103
ProvenanceChris Middendorf, New York; [George Belcher, Inc., San Francisco, California]; sold to Marshall and Helen Hatch, Seattle, Washington; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2009
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition History{Arts Club exhibition, 1943.}
Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Art in America: Washington Collection, Spiritualism in Northwest Art, July 22 - Aug. 29, 1982.
Carcasonne, France, Musée des Beaux Arts de Carcasonne, Seattle Style, June - Aug., 1987. Not in catalogue.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Morris Graves and Seattle, Nov. 1, 2001 -Oct. 20, 2002. No catalogue.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical, June 19 - Sept. 7, 2014. Text by Patricia Junker. No cat. no., p. 21, reproduced p. 24, pl. 11.Credit LineGift of the Marshall and Helen Hatch Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions15 1/2 x 21 in. (39.4 x 53.3 cm)
MediumOpaque watercolor on architectural tracing paper
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