Oral history interview with Carl Morris
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 42 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Morris, Carl, 1911-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Wash.)
label: Names
content: Fuller, Richard E. (Richard Eugene), 1897-1976
label: Names
content: Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Morris, Carl, 1911-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carl Morris (1911-1993) was a painter from Portland, Or.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 Mar. 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.morris83
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Carl Morris conducted 1983 Mar. 23, by Sue Ann Kendall, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project, at the artist's studio in Portland, Or.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Morris speaks of his family background; his early interest in art; his education at the Chicago Art Institute; becoming the head of the Spokane Federal Art Project; the changes in art during the 1930s; the Northwest arts community and his relationship to it; mysticism; and collectors, including Dr. Richard E. Fuller. He recalls Clyfford Still.