"Bill Morehouse's affinity for landscape dates to early childhood recollections of cross country travel by train and car. His father, a railroad man, frequently took the family on journeys to visit grandparents in New York and relatives in New Brunswick, Chicago, Montana and southern California. Travel, and the memory of a moving, changing landscape remains a part of his personal vision; this might also inform his interest in working serially. Over the years Morehouse has explored various themes, often through subjects pertaining to significant places and experiences of his travel."
Phil Linhares, June, 1992
"Bill's Sonoma Four companions (Tony King, Bill Wheeler and Jack Stuppin) describe Morehouse as "very articulate with a brush" and having "an ease about making paintings that none of the rest of us have" This is apparent in every work - the sensuous drawings, the painterly passages tracing quarries and trails down into canyons; the sweeping curves of paint describing a hillside or the currents of an estero; the massed textures of green valleys and dry heath overlooked by a cold blue sky - Morehouse makes it seem easy and we know it's not."
William Zimmer, Visions Art Quarterly, 1992
Bill Morehouse's plein air work had in part inspired an interest in Oriental painting; he was intrigued by "an approach to spacial organization which makes reference to states of mind, of spirit,of different ways in which to space can be "read", entered, appreciated, enjoyed"
Snake River, Idaho Collection of Margaret Seltzer
Bodega Summer Walk Collection of Margaret Seltzer
Sierra 80x24 oil/panel 1993
After Wang Meng 48x24 o/c 1993
After Li Yin 48x24 o/c 1993
After Li T'ang 48x24 o/c 1993 Collection of Carol and Stu Baker
After C'hang Hong 48x24 o/c 1993
After Fan Kuan 48x24 o/c 1993
After Ch'eng Ghia-Sui 48x24 o/c 1993
Crane Canyon III 48x24 o/c 1993
Grand Tetons 30x66 o/c 1992
Sonoma Summer 24x24 Collection of Phillip Shugar
Rainy Day at Brown Bag 24x24 1992
Windy Day at Calistoga 24x24 1991
Mouth of Walker Creek II Collection of the Bourkes
Creighton Ridge Sky 24x36 1990
Above Marshall 24x24 1991
Bear Valley Meadow 30x40 1992
Arch Rock from Goat Rock 36x24 1992
Cherry Tree Slope Collection of Phillip Shugar
Collection of Victoria Morehouse
Battery Wallace from Marin Headlands 30x40 1992
Below the Resevoir 24x24 1992
Spring Lake 36x24 1991
Irish Hill 30x40 1990
Maake Hill 24x24 1991
On the Pond 40x30 1992
Iona Island 35x16 1991
on loan to Gorden Morehouse
Sag Harbor 32x16 1991
Marshall Beach 30x40 1991
Bodega 24x24 1991
Bodega Head 30x40 1991
Bristlecone Pines, White Mountains 36x24 1992
Willow Creek Collection of Jan and John Carroll
Study Coleman Valley Rd 12x9 1991
Study Coastal Cypress Unknown Collection
Olympali State Park 30x40 1991
On the Pond 30x40 Collection of The Wonderful Framer Guy
The Beach 48x24 1992
Wilson Hill 24x36 1991
Elephant Rocks from Pozzi's 30x40 o/c 1991Collection of David &Maureen Feinberg
In 1990 Bill was invited to paint en plein air with Bill Wheeler, Tony King and Jack Stuppin. They had a fabulous time, produced quite a few significant bodies of work and became known as The Sonoma Four. Their landscape paintings were shown at The Noblett Gallery in Sonoma, Dominican College and at the John Berggruen Gallery and the group was featured in Visions Quarterly magazine. Their efforts together ended with The Cross Country Painting Tour, which was shown at The Century Club in New York City and was dedicated to the loving memory of Bill, their friend and painting companion.
