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Morris Graves was an American painter whose works combined abstraction with naturalistic observation of birds, insects, and aquatic life. Working primarily in gouache and watercolor on paper, he developed a lyrical, introspective visual language that emerged from his engagement with Pacific Northwest landscape and Asian aesthetics. Active from the 1930s through the 1990s, Graves pursued a sustained inquiry into the relationship between consciousness and the natural world, resisting both pure abstraction and literal representation.

Fox Valley, OR, USA