‘There are landscapes, figure groups, single figures, altar pieces, chasubles, wall hangings large and small – and it feels as if Bolton Morris over the years has been trying to respond to each motif on its own term. Obviously his is a career that has never gone on automatic pilot.’ Victoria Donahue, Art Critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bolton explored every imaginable medium and technique. Here a simple ceramic plaque which I date to about 1959 – as ‘Mid-Century Modern’ as it comes. Both dynamic and charming, though he’d hate my saying that, but never ‘on automatic pilot’. That restlessness rewarded him with a life of economic poverty, but of spiritual wealth. An Oblate of the Benedictines in Portsmouth RI, this plaque probably meant a great deal to him which is why it survived.
