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1911 New York City - 1991. Known for: Avant-garde bronze sculpture, painting, drawing.
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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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Museum
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York