Morris Graves
Subtitle: his houses, his gardens : a definitive look at the houses and gardens of the reclusive Northwest painter
By: Richard Svare ; [book design by Galen Garwood ; edited by William O'Daly and Deborah Mangold]
Contributors: O'Daly, William, editor; Mangold, Deborah, editor; Garwood, Galen
Publisher: Process
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9781934170427
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Pictorial works; Biography; Artists
Description: The story of the homes of Morris Graves, a leading figure in Northwest Art and one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, illustrated with beautiful duotone photographs. Author and photographer Richard Svare makes clear that the world his close friend Morris Graves inhabited physically was the world he experienced transcendentally. Morris Graves soared from obscurity to fame in 1942, when thirty of his works appeared in New York's Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "Americans 1942: 18 Artists from Nine States." A review in ARTnews magazine praised his paintings as the "sensation of the show." Partly because he chose to live in the Northwest, Graves was often said to be reclusive. Many of his early paintings were created at "The Rock," a cabin he built for himself eighty-five miles north of Seattle. He built a home in Ireland and spent the last thirty-five years of his life in Northern California.
Notes: "Published ... in association with the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA), La Conner, Washington."
Table of contents: title: The Rock 1940-1947; title: Once more, the round [poem] / Theodore Roethke; title: Careläden 1947-1957; title: Woodtown Manor 1958-1964; title: More than once ... [poem] / Galen Garwood; title: The Lake 1965-present; title: Red raft on Yellow River [poem] / Galen Garwood.