On View
Not on viewObject number1975/6.84
Nest Bird
Artist
Morris Graves
(American, 1910-2001)
Date1944
Mediumtempera and ink
Dimensionsimage: 25 3/8 in. × 39 in. (64.5 × 99.1 cm)
frame: 32 1/2 × 46 1/4 × 1/8 in. (82.6 × 117.5 × 0.3 cm)
frame: 32 1/2 × 46 1/4 × 1/8 in. (82.6 × 117.5 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Gilmore
Exhibition History"Sharing Our World: he Animals Among Us," KIA (Mar. 1993).
"Masterworks from the KIA Permanent Collection," Dennos Museum Center (Mar. 1997 - Feb. 1998); Midland Center for the Arts (Apr. - July, 1998).
"Fish to Fowl: Animals in Art," KIA Long Gallery (Sept. 1 - Nov. 12, 2006).
Label TextA Pacific Northwest artist influenced by Mark Tobey, Graves is a mystic and a poet, as well as a painter. An admirer of Zen Buddhism and Chinese poetry, he abstracts natural forms, such as birds, fish or trees, to create intensely moody, romantic, symbolic paintings.The bird is an ancient symbol of spiritual transcendence. Graves often creates the effect of antiquity by frosted patinas, white writing and scumbling techniques.
