1. Ree Morton was an American visual artist who was closely associated with the postminimalist and feminist art movements of the 1970s.
16 Facts About Ree Morton
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Ree Morton was born on August 3,1936, in Ossining, New York.
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Ree Morton decided to become a full-time artist in the late 1960s, receiving a BFA from the University of Rhode Island in 1968 and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1970.
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Ree Morton deployed "confrontational innocence," as described by art historian Lucy Lippard, and humor in her sculptures that referenced everyday decorative forms such as curtains, ruffles and swags.
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Formally, Bake Sale typifies the playful interrelationships of objects Ree Morton sought to create in her work.
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Ree Morton died at the age of 40 in a car accident in Chicago, Illinois on April 30,1977.
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From July 21 to August 17,1976, Ree Morton participated in the residency program at Artpark in Lewiston, New York.
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Ree Morton developed two works during the residency, Regarding Landscape, and The Maid of the Mist.
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In Regarding Landscape, Ree Morton utilized a pre-existing wall in front of a waterfall along the Upper Gorge Trail.
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For Maid of the Mist, Ree Morton painted a thirty-five-foot ladder yellow and decorated it with Celastic ribbons and roses and incorporated two life preservers decorated with flowers and streamers into the event as well.
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Ree Morton cut the rope connecting the life preserver floating in the water and released it into the current.
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Ree Morton's work has been revered by artists, critics and curators since 1973 when her Souvenir Piece was the inaugural exhibition at Artists Space in 1973.
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Ree Morton had a solo exhibition in the lobby gallery of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974.
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In 2000, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont hosted an exhibition titled The Mating Habits of Lines: Sketchbooks and Notebooks of Red Ree Morton, curated by Ree Morton's friend, the artist Barbara Zucker.
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In 2007, Marc Foxx Gallery in Los Angeles, organized For Ree which included the work of Jim Hodges, Evan Holloway, Susan Philipsz, Amada Ross-Ho and Frances Stark, alongside works by Morton.
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Eliot quote that Morton kept above her desk; and in 2015, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia presented a retrospective of Morton's work called Ree Morton: Be a Place, Place an Image, Imagine a Poem.