Study for Brazilian Screamers/Letter to the Artist’s Mother
1932
Morris Graves
born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001
Transparent watercolor and graphite on paper
18 × 12in. (45.7 × 30.5cm)
Gift of the Marshall and Helen Hatch Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2009.52.106
Provenance: The artist, Beaumont, Texas, to his mother, Helen Malson Graves (1876-1974), Seattle, Washington, probably around January-March 1932; returned to the artist, probably following the death of his mother, 1974; the artist's gift to Marshall (1918-2008) and Helen (died 1996) Hatch, Seattle, 1976; by bequest to Settle Art Museum, 2008
