Carl Morris (painter)

Carl A. Morris (May 12, 1911 – June 3, 1993)[1][2][3] was an American painter, born in Yorba Linda, California.

Morris studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna.

Morris met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman, when he recruited her as a teacher for the center.

In 1941, he was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to paint murals for the post office in Eugene, Oregon.

[5] They often visited New York to see friends such as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Joseph Campbell and Lionel Trilling but declined to relocate, wanting to avoid what they saw as a climate of commercialism and artistic distraction.