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Morris Graves (1910 – 2001) was an American painter. He was one of the earliest Modern artists from the Pacific Northwest to achieve national and international acclaim. His style, referred to by some reviewers as Mysticism, used the muted tones of the Northwest environment, Asian aesthetics and philosophy, and a personal iconography of birds, flowers, chalices, and other images to explore the nature of consciousness. An article in a 1953 issue of ''Life'' magazine cemented Graves' reputation as a major figure of the 'Northwest School' of artists. He lived and worked mostly in Western Washington, but spent considerable time traveling and living in Europe and Asia, and spent the last several years of his life in Loleta, California.〔〔〔 ==Early years== Morris Cole Graves was born August 28, 1910, in Fox Valley, Oregon, where his family had moved about a year before his birth, from Seattle, Washington, in order to claim land under the Homestead Act. He was named in honor of Morris Cole, a favored minister of his Methodist parents. He had five older brothers, and eventually, two younger siblings.〔Ament, Deloris Tarzan: Graves, Morris (1910-2001)HistoryLink.org essay5205; http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5205 retvd 6 24 15〕〔Humboldt Arts website - Morris Graves -'About Morris Graves'; http://humboldtarts.org/About/morrisgraves.htm retvd 6 24 15〕 Constant winds and cold winters made it much more difficult than expected to establish a working farm, and the struggle led to bankruptcy of the senior Graves' once-thriving paint and wallpaper store in Seattle. In 1911, a few months after Morris' birth, the family returned to the Seattle area,〔 settling north of the city in semi-rural Edmonds, Washington.〔Farr, Sheila:'The House That Morris Graves Built',''The Seattle Times'', Dec.9, 2001. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20011209&slug=pgraves09 retvd 6 25 15〕 He was a self-taught artist with natural understandings of color and line. Graves dropped out of high school after his sophomore year, and between 1928 and 31, along with his brother Russell, visited all the major Asian ports of call as a steamship hand for the American Mail Line.〔Junker, Patricia A.:''Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical'', Seattle Art Museum/University of Washington Press; ISBN 978-0-932216-72-4〕 On arriving in Japan, he wrote: ::"There, I at once had the feeling that this was the right way to do everything. It was the acceptance of nature not the resistance to it. I had no sense that I was to be a painter, but I breathed a different air."〔Ament, Deloris Tarzan: "Morris Graves: The Bad-Boy Recluse of Northwest Art"; Art Guide. http://www.artguidenw.com/Graves.htm retrieved 2007-08-06〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morris Graves」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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