Ree Morton
| Ree Morton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 3, 1936 Ossining (town), New York |
| Died | April 30, 1977 (aged 40) Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Tyler School of Art |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Postminimalist |
Ree Morton (August 3, 1936 – April 30, 1977) was an American visual artist who was closely associated with the postminimalist art movement of the 1970s as well as making work considered feminist in nature.
Ree Morton was born on August 3, 1936 in Ossining (town), New York. In 1968 she received her BFA from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. In 1970 Morton attained a Masters in Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. She taught at the Philadelphia College of Art.
Morton worked in a variety of mediums including sculpture, drawing and installation art. She began her full-time artistic career at a relatively later age, when she was 30, after already having become a Navy wife, mother of three, and homemaker. 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. Morton herself described her work as "light and ironic on serious subjects without frivolity." Curator Marcia Tucker describes Morton's work as "unusual in its totality; it incorporates painting, sculpture, real and crafted objects, natural and artificial materials. The work is intelligent without being intellectual, narrative without being literary and ironic without being whimsical. Its multiplicity, contradictory and slightly perverse nature, its response to natural forms and its sources in primitive human phenomena result in a unique sculptural mode. Morton's art also frequently combined her love of poetry and semiotics. She made many text-based works in crayon and pencil. She also kept a quote by the author T.S. Eliot over her desk, which was later used as the title of her retrospective.
During her lifetime, she mostly received attention for her sculptural work.
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