”Greenhouse plant”
Signed and dated Graves -64. Watercolour and tempera on paper 63,5 x 27,5 cm.
Willard Gallery, New York.
Private Swedish collection, acquired at the above gallery in 1966/67.
"For an artist so deeply committed to the creation of evocative metaphysical images, and so profoundly convinced that art's primary purpose was to help advance spiritual consciousness, such an attempt - or, to be more exact, series of attempts, to depict a humble bouquet of flowers objectively, without overt or hidden references to deeper dimensions of meaning, could only have represented an intriguing an portentous departure from the norm." (Theodore F. Wolff, "Morris Graves, Flower paintings", University of Washington Press, text opposite ill no 7.)