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About Mary Morez
- Mary Morez (January 16, 1946 – September 25, 2004) was a Navajo painter. Born near Tuba City, Arizona, Morez was stricken with both polio and rheumatic fever as a girl, and underwent numerous operations as a result before being adopted by Lawrence and Mary Keim.
- She first studied at the Phoenix Indian School before receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona and received a scholarship to study fashion illustration at the Ray Vogue Art School in Chicago.
- In 1969 she chose to devote her work to full-time painting instead of commercial art.
- Allan Houser and Oscar Howe served as her mentors early in life.
- Her work combined traditional Navajo elements with a more contemporary, abstract style.
- Besides painting Morez also worked as a textile artist.
- For much of her career she lived in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Morez is represented in the collection of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
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