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  Saturday   April 29   2006       12: 54 AM

book recommendation


Morris Graves: Flower Paintings

Morris Graves died in 2001. My comment from that post:


As a young architecture student in 1963, my world was opened by the discovery of these 4 mystic painters. Sometime in the early 90s I went to a Morris Graves show and was shocked to discover that, not only was Morris Graves still alive, but he was doing his best work. He was painting flower still lifes. Where his early work pushed his eastern philosophy, his later work did not. And by not pushing it, these later paintings became all the more powerful statements of his mysticism.

He started painting these still lifes in his sixties and continued to paint these brilliant flower paintings well into his eighties. An inspiration in late life creativity. Great paintings.