Morris Graves
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Morris Cole Graves 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
Morris Graves, 1938. Photo by Robert Bruce Inverarity. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Church at Index, 1934, painted for the Works Projects Administration
Dove of the Inner Eye, Morris Graves, 1941, opaque watercolor on oiled paper
Hibernation, Morris Graves, 1954
La Conner, Washington
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La Conner is a town in Skagit County, Washington, United States with a population of 965 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon–Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Morris Graves
…Swan (1933) won an award in the Seattle Art Museum's Northwest Annual Exhibition and was purchased by the museum. He split his time between Seattle and La Conner, Washington, where he shared a studio with Guy Anderson. Graves's early work was in oils and focused on birds touched with strangeness, either blind, or wounded…
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Part of downtown La Conner, with the Swinomish Channel behind it. Rainbow Bridge at left, fishing port on the Swinomish Reservation across the channel.
A roughly 220° view of the Swinomish Channel, near downtown La Conner. Pier 7 can be seen at right.
La Conner's Rainbow Bridge crossing the Swinomish Channel