Night Hedgerow Animal
1954
Morris Graves
American, born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001
In the quiet of the Irish countryside, with the absence of urban noise, Graves re-captured that sensitivity to the night’s sounds that had once been so acutely developed in him. In this setting he imagined strange nocturnal creatures that lurked in the hedgerows around his old stone house.
"This has to do with the spirit of the night in Ireland, and it’s not whimsical." (Morris Graves, 1974)
Ink on paper
19 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (48.9 x 47.6 cm)
Gift of the Marshall and Helen Hatch Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2009.52.27
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
