Considered one of the world’s foremost glass artists, William Morris “has pursued various themes related to archaeology, animals and the hunt.  These themes are united by the powerful combination of Morris’s intellectual interest in myth and ancient history and his strong intuitive understanding of the natural world.  They are made compelling by the generative, distinctly masculine energy Morris invests in his objects… In looking at Morris’s art, we are reminded of what it is to be ancient…to be human.  We momentarily reconnect with that elemental aspect of our psyches that is prehistoric.  Beyond his technical brilliance in the craft of blowing and sculpting glass, it is Morris’s ability to enter and work within the realm of the unconscious that makes him superior artist”. 
 –Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass.

Selected Museums and Public Collections
American Craft Museum, New York
Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Daiichi Museum, Nagoya, Japan
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
The Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Louvre, Paris
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum
Musee des arts decoratifs, Paris
Museum fur Kunst and Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
The Mueum of Fine Arts, Houston
Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Japan
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Port of Seattle
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rockefeller Center, New York
Royal College of Art, London
Seattle Art Museum
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
State Foundation of Culture in the Arts, Honolulu
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond