Biografie von Hilda MORRIS (1911-1991)

Birth place: New York, NY

Addresses: Portland, OR

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: ASL; Cooper Union Sch. Art & Arch

Exhibited: Am. Sculpture, MMA, 1951; Third Pacific Coast Biennial, Santa Barbara Mus. Art, 1960; Northwest Art Today, Seattle World's Fair, 1962; Nat. Print Show, Brooklyn Mus., 1964; many exhs., SFMA; Fountain Gal. Art, Portland, OR, 1970s. Awards: Ford Found. fellowship, 1960.

Member: Portland AA

Work: Chase-Manhattan Bank; CPLH; Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst. Mus.; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Coll., Virginia Mus.; SFMA. Commissions: sculpture, Seattle Opera House, 1963; bronze, Standard Plaza Bldg., Portland, OR, 1967; bronze, Pacific Nat. Bldg., Tacoma, WA, 1971.

Comments: Married to Carl Morris. Preferred media: bronze, cement, sumi. Publications: illustr., cover drawings, Poetry Northwest, Spring 1968, Summer 1968 & Spring 1969.

Sources: WW73; New Talent" (March, 1957) & "Regional Accent: Pacific Northwest" (1965), Art in Am.; Robin Skelton, "Sculpture as Metaphor: Five Bronzes by Hilda Morris," Malahat Review (July, 1969); Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 117."