Artist Pubs
Morris Graves

Auction Records (469)   For Sale (8)   Bio/Info   Free Alerts  
Upcoming (0) Wanted (7) Related Artists (24) Pricing my art
Charts (6) Dealers (14) Signatures (30)
Morris Cole Graves (1910 - 2001) was active/lived in Washington, California, Oregon / Ireland.  Morris Graves is known for Abstract, symbolic painting-birds, still life, insects and animals.

Biography photo for Morris Cole Graves
 The following obituary is from The New York Times, by Holland Cotter:

Morris Graves, an artist whose paintings of wounded birds and supernaturally radiant flowers combined the spirit of American Transcendentalism with Asian philosophy, and whose reclusive efforts to avoid what he called "the machine- age noise of America" were the stuff of legend, died on Saturday at his home in Loleta, Calif. He was 90.

Often associated with a group of painters from the Pacific Northwest, among them Mark Tobey, Mr. Graves became an overnight sensation in 1942 when his work appeared in a show of new American talent at the Museum of Modern Art.  At the time, he was living on an island in Puget Sound in a barely accessible clifftop house once described as a cross between a fisherman's shack and a Japanese tea house.  He had built it himself.  It had no electricity; the only available water was rainwater, and Mr. Graves's only companion was a small dog name   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15546 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 469 auction lots for Morris Graves (of which 396 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 8 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 14 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Morris Graves as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Morris Graves in 0 of its research Essays. Morris Graves has 30 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Morris Graves available:    Mark Tobey,  Kenneth Callahan,  Guy Irving Anderson,  Paul Horiuchi,  Richard Gilkey,  Walt Francis (Walter) Kuhn,  Philip Howard (Blashki) Evergood,  Stuart Davis,  Arthur Garfield Dove,  Marsden Hartley,  John Marin,  George Tsutakawa,  Leo Kenney,  Charles Burchfield,  Carl Morris,  Yasuo Kuniyoshi,  Grace Hartigan,  Alfred Maurer,  Charles Sheeler,  Guy Pene Du Bois,  William Zorach,  Irene Rice Pereira,  William James Glackens,  Milton Clark Avery



Copyright © 1999-2024 askART.com and underlying auction houses. All Rights Reserved. Digital copying of these images and content strictly prohibited; violators will be subject to the law including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Facts about Morris Graves

   Publications  Book References:  180
Magazine References:  11

The listed publications are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. askART has derived Publications as an aid to members, but it is not necessarily a complete list.
11 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Morris Graves
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Watercolor: American Artist Andrew Wyeth Picks 20 Great American Watercolorists October 2006 Doherty, M. Stephen Yes
ARTnews National News June 2003 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction Datebook February 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTnews National News August 2001 Editor, Art News Yes
ARTweek News July 2001 Editor, ARTWeek No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions July 2000 Editors, Art in America No
ARTnews Reviews May 2000 Editors, ARTNews Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West February 1998 Adams, Cristina Yes
Art & Auction In the Galleries April 1996 Editors, Art and Auction No
Art & Auction In the Galleries March 1996 Editors, Art and Auction No
ARTnews REviews February 1995 Editors, ART NEWS Yes
180 Book References for Morris Graves
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts & Crafts to Modern Architecture 384 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
2003 Conkelton, Sherry, Laura Landau, Janeanne A. Upp Northwest Mythologies: The interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson 176 Yes
2002 Ament, Deloris Tarzan Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art 388 Yes
2002 Cage, John; Graves, Morris; Tobey, Mark Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves 272 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1999 Wolff, Theodore F Morris Graves: The Early Works 71 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1997 Phillips, Stephen Bennett Twentieth Century Still Life Paintings from Phillips Collection 120 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Wolff, Theodore F Morris Graves Flower Paintings 96 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Hough, Katherine Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol 377 No
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1990 Schall, Ellen (others) American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1989 Kushner, Marilyn; Alejandro Anreus, et all Three Hundred Years of American Painting: Montclair Art Museum Collection 200 Yes
1989 La Cour, Donna Ward Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc 196 No
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Clarke, David J The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture 410 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1988 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper II
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1987 Brutvan, Cheryl Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 168 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1987 Strickler, Susan (editor) American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection 232 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Fleischman, Martha (Intro) Insights & Outlooks American 20th Century Watercolors & Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Harris, Neil/Martina R Norelli Art, Design and the Modern Corporation
(Exhibition catalog)		 135 Yes
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 Cumming, William Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School 239 No
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Foshay, Ellen M Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art 202 Yes
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Cathcart, Linda L American Still Life 1945-1983
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Kass, Ray Morris Graves Visions of the Inner Eye
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1983 Stebbins, Theodore/C Troyen The Lane Collection 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 183 Yes
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 41 Yes
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor) Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University) 106 No
1981 Nassau County Museum Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Ritchie, Margaret Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection 304 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Ewing, Robert A; Joshua Taylor (Intro) The First Western States Biennial Exhibition Western States Art Foundation
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1979 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Selz, Peter 2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Maler 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 156 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Cowles, Charles (others) Northwest Traditions
(Exhibition catalog)		 105 Yes
1978 Mathey, Francois American Realism 192 No
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Cloudman, Ruth H The Chosen Object European and American Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1977 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts Santa Fe Selects Contemporary Artists of the American West
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 Yes
1977 Williams, Mary Frances Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College 211 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 178 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Phillips, Laughlin (Introduction) American Art from the Phillips Collection A Selection of Paintings, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1975 Wasserman, Emily The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art) 91 Yes
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Daniels, David (preface) The Drawings of Morris Graves 175 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1974 National Collection/Fine Arts Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 141 No
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 Hormats, Bess Duncan Phillips Retrospective for a Critic
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1969 Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Barker, Virgil From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting 93 No
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Hirsch, Richard Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1967 North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned)
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Baldinger, Wallace S. Morris Graves: A Retrospective 63 Yes
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1966 Dibble, George Watercolor Materials and Techniques 148 Yes
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1966 Pellegrini, Aldo New Tendencies in Art 320 Yes
1966 University of Oregon Museum Morris Graves A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1965 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters 141 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1964 Indiana University Museum American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1964 Johnson, Una E 20th Century Drawings Part I:1900-1940/Part II 1940 to the Present 284 Yes
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1962 Kuh, Katherine The Artist's Voice: Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists 248 Yes
1962 Rogers, Millard Northwest Art Today Adventures in Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 106 No
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Dorra, Henri American Muse, The 163 Yes
1961 Freedman, Leonard (editor) Looking at Modern Painting 164 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Rodman, Selden Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects 234 No
1960 Read, Herbert Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting 326 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 Baur, John I H New Art in America 279 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1956 Wight, Frederick and others Morris Graves 64 Yes
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Barr, Alfred H Jr Masters of Modern Art 239 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1949 Wight, Frederick Milestones of American Painting in Our Century 135 Yes
1948 Editor, Art Institute of Chicago Fifty-Ninth Annual American Exhibition-Water Colors and Drawing 20 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 22 No
1943 Kootz, Samuel M New Frontiers in American Painting 65 Yes
1943 Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller Romantic Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1942 Museum of Modern Art Americans 1942 18 Artists from 9 States
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
Top