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Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Art Galleries of the University of California , Los Angeles, Morris Graves Retrospective Exhibition, Nov. 5 - Dec. 2, 1956 (New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Feb. 28 - Apr. 8, 1965; Washington D.C., The Philips Collection, Apr. 15-May 7, 1956; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 19 - June 30, 1956; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, July 21 - Aug. 26, 1956; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (no dates given); La Jolla, California, The Art Center, Dec. 10, 1956 - Jan. 15, 1957; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Feb.7 - Mar.10, 1957). Text by Frederick S. Wight, John I. H. Baur, and Duncan Phillips. Cat. no. 3.
Balboa, California, The Pavilion Gallery, Morris Graves Retrospective, organized by the Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, California, and the Newport Harbor Service League, Mar. 1 - 31, 1963. Text by Frederick S. Wight. Cat. no. 3, n.p., reproduced. [Text adapted from Morris Graves by Frederick S. Wight, et al., published by the University of California Press in book form, and as catalogue for exhibition organized by UCLA Art Galleries, 1956].
Eugene, Oregon, Museum of Art, Morris Graves: A Retrospective, Feb. 8 - Mar. 13, 1966. Cat. no. 2.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Morris Graves and Northwest Masters, July 21 - Aug. 13, 1972. No catalogue.
La Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, Morris Graves: The Early Works, June 25 - Sept. 30, 1998 (Stamford, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art-Fairfield County, Mar. 12 - June 3, 1998; Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Mar. 17 - May 16, 1999; Beaumont, Texas, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Sept. 9 - Nov. 30, 1999. No cat. no., pp. 67, 70, reproduced p. 4.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Northwest Traditions, June 29 - Dec. 10, 1978 (Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Mar. 9 - Apr. 29, 1979). Text by Martha Kingsbury. No cat. no., p. 103.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, June 7 - Sept. 2, 1990. No catalogue.
La Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, Heads, Oct. 6, 2000 - Jan. 7, 2001. No catalogue.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Morris Graves and Seattle, Nov. 1, 2001 - Oct. 20, 2002. No catalogue.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, From New York to Seattle: Case Studies in American Abstraction and Realism, Jan. 15, 2020 - June 5, 2022.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.
Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara. Modern Art from the Pacific Northwest in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1990; p. 2, reproduced.
Appelo, Tim. "Seattle Goes Boom." The Magazine Antiques (November 2008): reproduced fig. 10, p. 106.