Hilda Grossman Morris
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Hilda Grossman(Deutsch) Morris (1911 - 1991) was at the center of the Northwest's avant-garde for much of her career, producing a large body of innovative, influential bronze sculpture.
Morris and her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Carl Morris, settled in Portland, Oregon in 1941. Except for extended trips to her hometown New York and in later years Pietrasanta Italy to cast bronze sculptures, she worked in Portland, Oregon. Her work introduced rigorous thinking about abstraction to the Pacific Northwest incorporating the rhythms of dance, music and mathematics, emphasizing the organization of organic structure. However, due to a complex set of circumstances, including distance from art-world centers and her own independence of mind-as well as changing trends and directions in art, Morris's work, and indeed, her career, have not fully received the attention that they so greatly deserve.
