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.&nbs...