An exhibit at the Knight Library through May 31 will give insight into the life of a Northwest original: artist Morris Graves.

Special Collections and University Archives on the second floor of Knight Library will display a selection of the Morris Graves Papers, which comprises drawings, photographs, blueprints and building plans, exhibition materials, notes, writings, incoming and outgoing correspondence, travel documents, medical and financial records, art sale records, and ephemera. The UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art houses many of the artist’s paintings and drawings.

In addition to his paintings, drawings and sculptures, Graves designed his external environments, including studios, gardens and residences.

Though Graves could be deemed an artist of the world, he was an artist of the Northwest, spending much of his life along the Pacific Coast. He was born in 1910 in Fox Valley, Oregon; he grew up in Seattle and also lived abroad in Ireland. He died in Loleta, California, in 2001.

The exhibit covers a fragment of the complete Morris Graves collection. It can be viewed and read from right to left or from left to right. Graves collected many papers, not only those dealing directly with his own life and career but also those of other artists and individuals with whom he associated, according to the UO Libraries.

- from the UO Libraries