A surrealist and mystic by nature, Morris Graves is perhaps the most enigmatic of the Northwest School’s “big four”, which included Mark Tobey (1890-1976), Guy Anderson (1906-1998), and Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986). Graves is known for his incorporation of Eastern spirituality and symbolism into his artwork, often using the images of the bird or “inner eye” to communicate his own form of transcendental philosophy. Though he exhibited widely during his time, the artist was somewhat of a .