"...I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness."

"I paint to evolve a changing language of symbols and language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality." --Morris Graves

Mostly a self-taught artist, Morris Graves spent a lifetime pursuing and exploring the transcendental through painting. He first gained notoriety in 1942 with the inclusion of over thirty of his works in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Since then, his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been collected by many major museums like, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Woodside Braseth Gallery is the gallery representative for the Morris Graves Estate and the Morris Graves Foundation.