Carl Morris

Carl Morris born in Yorba Linda, California, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna. He opened the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. He met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman when he recruited her as a teacher for the center. Other notable teachers at the center include Guy Anderson and Clyfford Still. In 1941, he was commissioned to paint murals for the Eugene, Oregon Post Office. He and his wife lived the rest of there lives in Oregon where they became important leaders in the Oregon art world. They often visited New York to see friends such as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Joseph Campbell and Lionel Trilling but declined to relocate, wanting to avoid what they saw as a climate of commercialism and artistic distraction http://www.lanecc.edu/library/don/morris.htm.

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Yorba Linda, California - Chicago Art Institute - Paris - Vienna - Spokane Art Center - Federal Art Project - Great Depression - Hilda Grossman - Guy Anderson - Clyfford Still - 1941 - Eugene, Oregon - Mark Rothko - Robert Motherwell - Joseph Campbell - Lionel Trilling

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