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This is the official website for the American artist Morris Louis (1912-1962), developed and authorized by The Estate of Morris Louis, The Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust, The Morris Louis Art Trust, The Estate of Marcella Brenner, and Diane Upright Fine Arts, LLC, the exclusive Agent for The Estate of Morris Louis.
Back in Washington, Louis and Noland experimented with various painting techniques and their application. In 1954 he started on the series of Veils, canvases in which he achieved the interpenetration of colours in the manner of watercolour by using finely applied patches of acrylic paint.
Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting.
Spare in design, but arresting in visual effect, Pungent Distances is part of a substantial group of paintings of stripes that Louis produced in the early 1960s. His pigment thinned with turpentine and his canvas stapled to a wall, the artist worked with controlled chance to create the impression that gravity produced the abstract design—even ...
American painter, a major pioneer of the movement from Abstract Expressionism to Colour Stain Painting (see Colour Field Painting). Almost all his career was spent first in Baltimore and then from 1947 in the Washington area.
Louis’s paintings form a crucial link between the gestural nature of post-war Abstract Expressionism and the Minimalist aesthetic of the late 1960s. Louis is regarded as the founder of the Washington Color School of painting, a loosely affiliated group of artists working in and around Washington, DC from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
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When Morris Louis died in September 1962, his paintings had just begun to attract widespread interest and critical attention. Although he had exhibited on a fairly regular basis since 1953, more than four hundred paintings he produced between 1953 and his death remained stored on rolls in his Washington home.
