Oral history interview with Carl Morris, 1983 Mar. 23.

Oral history interview with Carl Morris, 1983 Mar. 23.

Morris, Carl, 1911-1993

Oral history interview with Carl Morris, 1983 Mar. 23.

Phy. Description:

Sound recording: 4 sound cassettes.

Transcript: 44 p.

Digital Reference:

Transcript

Additional forms:

Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/morris83.htm

Bio / His Notes:

Painter; Portland, Or.

An interview of Carl Morris conducted at the Artist's studio in Portland, Or., 1983 Mar. 23, by Sue Ann Kendall for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project. Morris speaks of his family background; his early interest in art; his education at the Chicago Art Institute; becoming the head of the Spokane Federal Art Project; the changes in art during the 1930s; the Northwest arts community and his relationship to it; mysticism; and collectors, including Dr. Richard E. Fuller. He recalls Clyfford Still.

This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.

Location of Original:

Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Subject-Topical:

Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews

Art, Modern -- Northwestern States

Art, American -- Northwestern States

Painters -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews

Fuller, Richard E. (Richard Eugene), 1897-1976

Still, Clyfford, 1904-

Federal Art Project (Wash.)

Sound recordings

Repository Loc:

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560

Prince, Sue Ann interviewer.

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