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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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.... Read full biography
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About Hilda Morris: Books
Books & Publications (17)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism: 12 Proto-Feminists from Oregon and Washington (The Art Gym, Marylhurst University) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Allan, Lois; Matthew Kangas
20 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959
1999
Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit
251 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Contemporary Art in the Northwest
1995
Allan, Lois
231 pages (color)
Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all)
304 pages (color)
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions