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Article: Morris's eye language: a recent retrospective highlighted the evocative, abstract sculptures and sumi-ink drawings of Portland modernist Hilda Morris--a body of work influenced by the art of East Asia and the indigenous forms of the Pacific Northwest.(Hilda Grossman Morris)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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In 1947, Barnett Newman presented "The Ideographic Picture" at Betty Parsons Gallery, an exhibition proclaiming kinship between certain modern artists and the paradigmatic native artist of the Northwest Coast. Like the contemporary New York painters in the exhibition--Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Newman himself and others--"the Kwakiutl artist," Newman imagined, considered shape "a living thing, a vehicle for an abstract thought-complex, a carrier of ... awesome feelings." (1) Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, sculptor Hilda Grossman Morris (1911-1991) was pursuing a similar conception of art. Born in New York City, trained at Cooper Union, she had settled in Portland ...