This is the first book to document Morris' half-century-long career and presents her highly individual abstract sculptures against the backdrop of artistic developments during the second half of the twentieth century.

One of the premier sculptors of her generation in the Northwest, Hilda Morris (1911-1993) lived her artistic life in the center of the region's circle of avant-garde painters, sculptors, poets, and musicians. This is the first book to document her half-century-long career and presents Morris's highly individual abstract sculptures against the backdrop of artistic developments during the second half of the twentieth century. A part of the abstract expressionist movement, Morris's vigorous, gestural sculptures inspired by mythological and universal symbols were instrumental in introducing a rigorous, expansive thinking about abstraction to the Pacific Northwest community. As an account of her life and the first complete survey of her entire oeuvre - sculpture, painting, and drawing - this volume will be essential to an understanding of the period.

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"Sculptor Morris might be little known, but this retrospective exhibition catalog proves that there is much to be studied in her 50-year career. Hilda Morris is a solid resource for general audiences, sculpture aficionados, and art historians alike. Recommended."