Contact the gallery for images of additional works available in the gallery. Current inventory available is twenty-one sculptures by William Morris.

A glass virtuoso, Morris created blown glass sculptures and installations that simulate the artificial remains of animal skulls, prehistoric vessels and ancient bones. The "ancient" surface texture is achieved by sprinkling powdered glass and minerals onto the blown surface, etching and acid washing. Knowledgeable collectors and curators around the world are drawn to Morris' work for his technical mastery of a notoriously difficult medium, innovative use of color, design and surface texture, and his use of ancient motifs and myths to probe our modern psyches. Morris credits a need to be close to nature as the influencing force in his artistic development that began with producing vessel-based objects as Dale Chihuly's gaffer (master glassblower) in the early 1980s. Tall and muscular, Morris' strength and skill allowed Chihuly to push blown glass to sculptural and architectural dimensions.

AWARDS

Master of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC

Jurors Award, 32nd Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI

Artist as Hero Award, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Visionaries Award, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Outstanding Achievement in Glass, UrbanGlass Third Annual Awards Dinner, New York, NY
Distinguished Alumni Award, California State University, Chico, CA
Featured Artist, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Artist Series

National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant

Selected Public Collections:

American Craft Museum, New York
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Daiichi Museum, Nagoya, Japan
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
The Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Selected Public Collections:

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Niijima, Japan
Norton Museum, Palm Beach, FL
Pilchuck Collection, Stanwood, WA
Port of Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
Royal College of Art, London, England
Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, WA
Seattle-First National Bank Collection, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Permanent Installation, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific Collection, Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers Collection, Seattle, WA
Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan
Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
State Foundation of Culture in the Arts, Honolulu, HI
State of Oregon Public Services Building, Portland, OR
The Pilchuck Glass Collection at City Centre and US Bank Center, Seattle, WA
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Toyota USA, Corporate Retreat, Hilo, HI
UPS Corporate Collection, Louisville, KY
United Airlines, San Francisco, CA
University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
U.S. News and World Report, Washington, D.C.
The Valley National Bank of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Westin Hotel, San Francisco, CA