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Hilda Morris

Hilda Deutsch Grossman Morris (1911 - 1991) was active/lived in Washington, New York.  Hilda Morris is known for Avant-garde bronze sculpture, painting, drawing.

Born Hilda Deutsch in New York City, Hilda Morris was a painter, sculptor in bronze and cement, and late in her career a sumi artist working in Japanese ink and in an abstract style linked to her sculpture.  She also did illustration work including the cover drawing for Poetry Northwest, spring 1969.

In 1938, with the desire to work away from her hometown of New York, she applied and was accepted to the Spokane Art Center to be a WPA artist.  Shortly after her arrival, she won a purchase award for her watercolor Landscape at the Seattle Art Museum's Northwest Annual, an important regional event.  The work was rare for this artist because her reputation was primarily for modernist sculpture.  At the Art Center, she worked under the direction of painter Carl Morris, whom she later married, and in 1940, the couple moved to Seattle.

In an attempt to maintain artistic independence from her painter husband, she consciously fo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2914 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 15 similar (related) artists for Hilda Morris available:    Robert Sperry,  Carl Morris,  Kenneth Callahan,  Richard Gilkey,  William Cumming,  Clyde Leon Keller,  Paul Horiuchi,  Helmi Juvonen,  Jules Bernard Dahlager,  John Koenig,  Morris Graves,  Mark Tobey,  J Thomas Soltesz,  Oleg Ulitskiy,  Dale Chihuly



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Facts about Hilda Morris

   Publications  Book References:  17
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Hilda Morris
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Morris's Eye Language March 2007 Taylor, Sue Yes
17 Book References for Hilda Morris
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Allan, Lois; Matthew Kangas Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism: 12 Proto-Feminists from Oregon and Washington (The Art Gym, Marylhurst University)
(Exhibition catalog)
20 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959 251 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Allan, Lois Contemporary Art in the Northwest 231 Yes
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1984 Jenkins, Donald (forward) Hilda Morris Counterpoint-B/W Sumi Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
35 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1983 Guenther, Bruce Fifty Northwest Artists (photos of artists by Marsha Burns) 118 Yes
1978 Cowles, Charles (others) Northwest Traditions
(Exhibition catalog)
105 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1974 National Collection/Fine Arts Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present
(Exhibition catalog)
141 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1962 Rogers, Millard Northwest Art Today Adventures in Art
(Exhibition catalog)
106 No
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