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Morris, Hilda

Last Name: Morris
First Name: Hilda
Dates:
*1911 (Date of Birth)
*1991 (Date of Death)
Biography/History: Born Hilda Grossman in New York City, Hilda Morris began her study of art through visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Natural History, and classes at Cooper Union and the Art Students’ League. One of her teachers was John Steuart Curry. By 1937 Morris was pursuing an independent artistic career. In 1939, while Morris was working for the WPA Federal Arts Project in Spokane, she established a sculpture program and taught art at the WPA community center. Here she met her husband, the well-known Abstract Expressionist painter Carl Morris who was the director of the WPA Art Center. They married in 1940, moved to Seattle, and in 1941 they settled in Portland, Oregon where she briefly taught at the Museum Art School. They lived and worked in Portland until 1969, when she began to alternate between Oregon and Pietrasanta, Italy, where she worked maintained a studio and worked at the Mariani Foundry. In 1985 Morris was the recipient of the Ford Foundation Grant and the Governor Arts Award.
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4395.32 (Painting, Similar Intonations in a Change of Place, 1986)