Artist: William Morris (1834 - 1896)
Nationality: British
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Media: Design, Painting, Writing
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Morris Hunt 1857 Oil on canvas 37.15 x 33.02 cm
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Hamlet about 1864 Oil on canvas 239.39 x 146.37 cm
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Mother and Child about 1865 Oil on canvas 142.9 x
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Felix Regamy about 1864 Oil on canvas 216.53 x 104.14
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Portrait of a Lady about 1870 Oil on canvas 143.51
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Niagara about 1878 Casein on canvas 158.11 x 253.36 cm
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Artist: William Morris Title: Birds Date: 1879 - 1880 Medium: jacquard, woven Dimensions: H.82 x
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Charles Willson Peale - Governor Morris and Robert Morris 1783 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Circle Of William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Portrait of a Lady 1870-75 Oil on canvas
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Circle Of William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Portrait of a Lady 1870s Oil on canvas
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Sketch for the State Capitol at Albany (Discoverer) 1878 Oil
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Sketch for the State Capitol at Albany (Flight of Night)
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Pink and Rose Wallpaper Design, ca. 1890 Made by William Morris (English, 1834-1896)Hand-block-printed wallpaper; 22
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William Henry Lippincott - Summer Afternoon Morris, Connecticut 1885 Watercolor on paper Florence Griswold Museum American
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Frederick R. Spencer - Frances Ludlum Morris (Mrs. Robert Morris) oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Petroglyph Vessel, William Morris (born 1937) , circa 1987, Glass
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Standing Stone Vessel, William Morris (born 1937) , 1983, Glass
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Orkney Island Vessel, William Morris (born 1937) , 1984, Blown glass
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William Morris Hunt Governor's Creek, Florida oil on canvas 1874
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William Morris Hunt Girl at a Fountain Lithograph 1857
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William Morris Canopic Jar - Buck blown glass 1993
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William Morris Petroglyph Urn with Horn blown glass 1992
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William Morris Artifact: Tooth blown glass 1996
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William Morris Rhyton: Mastadon blown glass 1996
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William Morris Jar with Raven and Frogs blown glass 1999
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William Morris Hunt The Fortune Teller Lithograph 19th century
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Harbor View about 1870-1879 Charcoal on paper 24.1 x 39.4
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 The Quarry - or Study of Rocks about 1870-1879 Charcoal
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Girl with Cows, William Morris Hunt (United States, Vermont, Brattleboro, 1824 - 1879) , 1860, Oil on canvas
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Length of Printed Cotton, 19th–20th century Designed by William Morris (British, 1834-1896); Morris and Company,
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Portrait of Edward Wheelwright, William Morris Hunt (United States, Vermont, Brattleboro, 1824 - 1879) , 1857, Oil on canvas
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Merrimac River Banks of the Merrimac 1875 Charcoal on paper
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 5 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 6 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 4 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 1 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 3 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 2 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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George Cruikshank Fools' Morris Dance, Plate 4 opposite page 270 in the book Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays...by William Hone (London: William Hone, 1823) etching 1823
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Marigold, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1873, registered 1875, Hand block-printed paper
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Marigold, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1873, registered 1875, Hand block-printed paper
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Daisy, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1862, first printed 1864, Hand block-printed paper
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Daisy, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1862, first printed 1864, Hand block-printed paper
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Self Portrait 1849 Oil on canvas 27.3 x 21.27 cm
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Attributed to William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Cast of the hand of Louisa Dumaresq Perkins
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William Morris Suspended Artifact: Jackal Mask with Baleen and Gourd blown glass 1995
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Textile, ’Marigold’, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1875, Wood block printed cotton
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Textile, ’Rose’, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1883, Block-printed, indigo-discharge cotton
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Textile, ’Rose’, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1883, Block-printed, indigo-discharge cotton
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William Morris Artifact Still Life blown glass, scavo, gold leaf, and copper 1989 - 1990
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Textile Length, ’The Golden Bough’, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , circa 1890, Silk and linen compound weave
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Horsemen in Mexico Charcoal 18 x 29 cm (7 1/16
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Self Portrait 1866 Oil on canvas 77.15 x 64.77 cm
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Head of a Woman Mary B. Claflin 1872 Oil on
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John Wollaston - A Gentleman of the Morris Family 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Wollaston - Mary Walton Morris 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Henry Inman - George Pope Morris c. 1836 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Textile Printing Block, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , circa 1880, Wood, metal
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Textile Printing Block, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , circa 1880, Wood, metal
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Textile Printing Block, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , circa 1880, Wood, metal

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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National Library of Wales: Jackie Morris
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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Distinctly American: The Photographs of Wright Morris
Morris occupies a singular position in the history of American arts and letters. Recognized as one of America?s most gifted authors, he is also respected for his photography and his pioneering work combining images and text. Morris wrote 33 award-...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Sarah Morris: Artist in Focus IFFR
Seductive and inviting To Morris, making films and making paintings are two sides of the same coin. She is using both media to hold the codes of the urban environment, and the communication strategies behind them, up against the light. Her film A...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Sarah Morris
The picture space does not become a reproduction of corporate strategies; instead it is intensified in an interstitial zone through open-ended modular systems. Synchronous with a new cycle of pictures that draws on the urban backdr...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: Quentin Morris: Exploring Depth and Tonality of Black
This gesture represents a new direction in Morris' artistic development, as he ventures outside the boundaries of canvas and paper into the realm of installation. In creating this all-encompassing environment, Morris intends to expand the cont...
Bonner David Galleries: Beyond the Sky by Gail Morris
To achieve this, Morris finds her work to be informed by the great color field abstractionists as much as it is by the traditions of landscape. By merging these influences with her own visceral response to these places, she endeavors to create a ...
Whitney Museum of Art: Sowon Kwon: Two or Three Corridors
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Georgia Museum of Art: From Heroes to Dudes: Studies of Male Figure
From Albrecht Dürer’s 17th-century studies of the male figure to Kenyon Cox’s late 19th-century drawings of male nude models, a wide array of images will allow viewers to discover the ways in which real and mythical male bodies were dr...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed
This exhibition features five works created by the artist in 2002, in response to the horrific unfolding of evidence around the serial killing of women from Vancouver's skid row. Many of the women were of First Nations heritage, and Belmore uses ...
Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch: South African Contemporary Ceramics
The Director of the University Museum, Dr Lydia de Waal, was given an opportunity to make a selection from this collection. A total of 17 ceramic pieces of prominent artists ranging from Esias Bosch, Hyme Rabinowitz, Tim Morris and Andre Wal...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: Virgil Marti Opens New Work
Martis Morris Gallery installation will reference the Academys striking decorative program by building architect Frank Furness, as well as its historic curatorial practice, through the use of dramatic lighting, flocked wallpaper, and faux ease...
ASU Art Museum: The Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art
The exhibition will include works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Robert Morris and will...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Changing Room Gallery: News From Nowhere: Visions of Utopia
Based on the title of the William Morris novel News From Nowhere, the project aims to re-examine the legacy of utopianism. The idealists of the 19th and early 20th century, believed passionately in the possibilities of radical social change, with ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: A Measure of Reality: Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Lizzie Hughes, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Euan Uglow, Gary Woodley

Location, a wall piece by the American Robert Morris, literally records its own location in the gallery. His fellow minimalist, Dan Graham lists measurements from the edge of the known universe to the distance between his cornea and retinal ...
National Gallery of Art: Henry Moore
IMAGE:
Henry Moore
Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece,
1976-1978
Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
1978.43.1
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: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts: Charles Burns
Charles Burns (b. 1955), the Philadelphia-based graphic artist internationally known for his illustrations, comics, and books, is a graduate of The Evergreen State College (B.F.A., 1977) ...
Festival Network Online: New Search by Distance Feature Offers Improved Access to 14,000 Events
Founded in 1997 by festival and event veterans Kurt Irmiter and Connie Morris, FNO offers visitors and members access to thousands of events through their easy to read online database. After years of frustration with the lack of availabi...
Dallas Museum of Art: Art Deco and Streamlined Modern: Design 1920–1950
Highlights include exceptional objects designed by American Eugene Schoen in 1935 for the glamorous home of Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz in Washington, D.C. Another significant group of art deco pieces was recently bequeathed to the Museum by ...
Museum of New Art: SHOOT! Interactive Photography Exhibition Launches Saturday
In the end, the audience will have become the exhibition. Due to the nature of the show, there will be two receptions: the first will kick-off the photo shoot on Saturday May 11 from 6 to 10pm; and the second, the closing reception, on ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Defining Modern: European Design 1880-1930
This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the MFAH collection, highlights outstanding examples by design visionaries such as William Morris, Archibald Knox, Carlo Bugatti, Emile Gallé, Josef Hoffmann, and Edgar Brandt. Many of the works are on view ...
Montclair Art Museum: WILL BARNET: A TIMELESS WORLD
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Will Barnet
Old Mans Afternoon, 1947
Oil on canvas
47 x 36 in.
Private collection Works from the Permanent Collection of The Montclair Art Museum by ...
Australian Center for Photography: PHOTO TECHNICA AWARD for NEW AUSTRALIAN PHOTO-ARTIST of the YEAR

This year's judges will be Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Jonathan Morris, Publisher, 3D World Publishing and Alasdair Foster, Director, Australian Centre for Photography. Artists included are:
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Orlando Museum of Art: Collector's Choice II: Contemporary Art from Central Florida Collections
Also represented are cutting-edge artists such as Kiki Smith, Suzanne McClelland, Jane Hammond, Brad Kahlhamer and Beth Campbell. In addition, a number of works by Dale Chihuly an...
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: SELECTION OF WORKS BY MONTREAL ARTIST GENEVIEVE CADIEUX
In Paramour, Cadieux has made use of video for the first time, to bring out the dynamic underpinnings of her large-scale photographic work. The piece revolves around a dialogue between a man and a w...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: SURREALISM IN BIRMINGHAM
And for 20 years Birmingham was a hotbed of surrealism, although the city's influence on the movement has been little-known - until now. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery ha...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Volume: Bed of Sound
VOLUME: Bed of Sound explores the roots of sound art and presents audio works by over sixty artists, spanning the last three decades. The exhibition runs the gamut from historical works - sound effects tracks from Apoca...
Leeds City Art Gallery: The Triumph of Painting: From the Saatchi Collection
The Triumph of Painting showcases an international line-up of contemporary painters and sets out to show how today’s artists, and audiences, can still be intellectually and emotionally engaged by a form of art – painting – often declared defunct a...
City Gallery Wellington: Port Replicator: Eugene Hansen
The starting point for the show is a selection of found video footage, from television shows and movies, which is then, reworked using audio and visual mixing techniques from contemporary DJ culture. The name, Port Replicator refers to a device wh...
National Museum of American Art: Birthday Tribute to Jacob Kainen: Selections ffrom the Washington Color School
Kainen’s work helped clear the way for the Washington Color School, a group of local artists who painted bands of color and stained pigment into unprimed canvas to give greater impact to color and abstract form, bringing new relations about the ro...
Whitney Museum of Art: Bitstreams: Contemporary Art Harnesses Digital Media
In conjunction with BitStreams, Performance on 42nd presents Pulse, a series of four events featuring live performances intertwined with digital media. ...
Frye Art Museum: Northwest Views: Selections from the SAFECO Collection
The artworks selected for Northwest Views range in date from mid-1930s to the present with a wide range of genres: landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, comic art, still lifes, wildlife, and scenes of everyday life. While all the artworks can be b...
clubmedia: clubmedia no. 3.0
Beral Madra compares in thesaurus is a treasure waves and passion, the title of the Istanbul Art Biennal this year, with the shaking and suffering caused by the earthquake on August 17th in the North Western Turkey. Thomas Büsch descri...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: THE FUTURE OF COMFORT: International Artists Search for Place in a Virtual World
As art critic Johnathan Crary explains, One of the crucial paradoxes of ‘globalization’ is this: the greater the technological capacity for connection, for speed, for exchange and circulation of information, the more fragmented and compartmentaliz...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection
A complementary exhibition, William Morris: Man Adorned, an installation by Morris, a contemporary studio glass artist renowned for his technical skill and innovative subject matter, will also be on view throughout the run of Contemporary Dire...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Peter Doig: Paintings and MAGNETIC NORTH: Canadian Experimental Video Open This Weekend
Peter Doig is known for his exploration of the formal and thematic possibilities of landscape. His experimental approach to surface, texture and colour make him among the most innovative painters of his generation. Curated by Kitty Scott with the ...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
This exhibition brings together twenty works of art by Rossetti and focuses on his masterpiece of the period, The Blue Bower (1865). These works are displayed in context with paintings and drawings by other nine...
Palazzo della Gran Guardia: La percezione dello spazio: Panza di Biumo collection - Guggenheim NY
They represent one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the world and together offer a significant critical overview of Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Environmental Art (1960s-1970s). At the beginning of the 1990s a major part ...

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