The 100th birthday of American painter Morris Graves, (1910-2001) is celebrated with the exhibit “The Visionary Art of Morris Graves“ at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco CA until May 15th. 
“…Largely a self-taught artist closely associated with the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. His paintings, often small works on paper, were among the earliest to synthesize Eastern aesthetics and philosophy with the American Transcendental tradition. In his own words, Graves was working “to evolve a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.”
The Visionary Art of Morris Graves * Until May 15, 2010
Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA
(Images: “Snake in Moonlight”, 1938 and “Bird, Surf and Moon”, 1941 – both water color on paper)