Career
Except for extended trips to her hometown New York City and in later years Pietrasanta, Italy to cast bronze sculptures, she worked in Portland. Her work introduced rigorous thinking about abstraction to the Pacific Northwest incorporating the rhythms of dance, music, and mathematics, emphasizing the organization of organic structure. Hilda Morris" works have been shown in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Artist
Denver Art Museum.
Portland Art Museum. Seattle Art Museum. Dayton Art Institute. Amon Carter Museum; University of Illinois.
Seattle World"s Fair.
University of California, Los Los Angeles Brooklyn Museum. Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And American Federation of Arts traveling exhibitions.
In 1960 she was awarded a major fellowship by the Ford Foundation.
Commissioned sculptures by Hilda Morris are in the Seattle Opera House (Muted Harp). Standard Plaza, Portland (Ring of Time). And Pacific National Building, Tacoma, Washington (Sea Myth).
Her work is represented in the collections of the Chase-Manhattan Bank.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Museum of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.
University of Oregon Museum of Artist Reed College (Wind Gate).
University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Tacoma Art Museum. Walter P. Chrysler Junior., Collection of the Virginia Museum. And San Francisco Museum of Artist