Artist: Morris Louis (1912 - 1962)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Charles Willson Peale - Governor Morris and Robert Morris 1783 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Frederick R. Spencer - Frances Ludlum Morris (Mrs. Robert Morris) oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Dalet Heh, Morris Louis (United States, 1912 - 1962) , 1958, Acrylic on canvas
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Alpha Lambda (1961) by LOUIS Morris (dit), BERNSTEIN Morris Louis (patronyme)
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Gemini, Morris Louis (United States, 1912 - 1962) , 1962, Acrylic on canvas
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Morris Henry Hobbs St. Louis Cathedral, Old New Orleans Etching 19th - 20th century
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Unfurled Series: Beta Ro, Morris Louis (United States, 1912 - 1962) , 1959-1960, Acrylic on canvas
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Morris Hunt 1857 Oil on canvas 37.15 x 33.02 cm
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John Wollaston - Mary Walton Morris 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Wollaston - A Gentleman of the Morris Family 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Henry Inman - George Pope Morris c. 1836 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Morris Louis - 133 1962 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Morris Louis - Pi 1960 acrylic on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art American
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William Henry Lippincott - Summer Afternoon Morris, Connecticut 1885 Watercolor on paper Florence Griswold Museum American
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Pink and Rose Wallpaper Design, ca. 1890 Made by William Morris (English, 1834-1896)Hand-block-printed wallpaper; 22
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Chester Morris, George Hurrell (United States, 1904 - 1992) , circa 1932, Gelatin-silver print
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Artist: William Morris Title: Birds Date: 1879 - 1880 Medium: jacquard, woven Dimensions: H.82 x
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Morris Louis - Russet 1958 synthetic polymer pa The Museum of Modern Art American
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Morris Louis - Number 99 1959 acrylic on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Morris Louis - Number 1-81 1961 acrylic resin on can High Museum of Art American
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Morris Louis - Untitled 1-89 1958 acrylic on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Morris Louis - Untitled 1958 synthetic polymer pa The Museum of Modern Art American
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Hamlet about 1864 Oil on canvas 239.39 x 146.37 cm
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Mother and Child about 1865 Oil on canvas 142.9 x
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Felix Regamy about 1864 Oil on canvas 216.53 x 104.14
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Niagara about 1878 Casein on canvas 158.11 x 253.36 cm
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Portrait of a Lady about 1870 Oil on canvas 143.51
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Circle Of William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Portrait of a Lady 1870s Oil on canvas
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Circle Of William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Portrait of a Lady 1870-75 Oil on canvas
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Carl Morris Untitled Lithograph 1962
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W.G. Jackman [Geo. Morris] 19th century
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Sketch for the State Capitol at Albany (Discoverer) 1878 Oil
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Sketch for the State Capitol at Albany (Flight of Night)
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Length of Printed Cotton, 19th–20th century Designed by William Morris (British, 1834-1896); Morris and Company,
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Morris Graves Sunflower watercolor, ink and opaque watercolor circa 1955
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Morris Louis - Alpha Epsilon 1961 Acrylic on canvas The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Morris Louis - Beta Kappa 1961 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Morris Louis - Delta Lamda 1961 acrylic on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Morris Louis - Beth Chaf 1959 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Woman’s Coin Purse, George Morris  (Maker), 1960s, Leather, metal
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Nicholas Winfield Scott Leighton, American, 1849-1898 Waiting at the Bars 1880s Oil on canvas 51.12
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Petroglyph Vessel, William Morris (born 1937) , circa 1987, Glass
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Standing Stone Vessel, William Morris (born 1937) , 1983, Glass
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Morris Henry Hobbs Shotgun House, Old New Orleans Etching 1943
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Cabinet, 19th century (1861) Designed by Philip Webb (1831-1915); Made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner &
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Morris Broderson Lizzie Borden Transparent and opaque watercolor and pastel 1966
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Orkney Island Vessel, William Morris (born 1937) , 1984, Blown glass
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Carl Morris Untitled Color lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1962
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Morris Henry Hobbs Louise Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Morris Henry Hobbs Aphrodite Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Morris Graves Night Bird transparent and opaque watercolor on paper 20th century
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 4 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 5 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 6 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 1 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 2 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Unknown artist or artists A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland ed. by F.O. Morris (London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1860]), vol. 3 book with Baxter process color plates ca. 1860
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Marigold, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1873, registered 1875, Hand block-printed paper
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Marigold, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1873, registered 1875, Hand block-printed paper
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Daisy, William Morris (England, London, 1834 - 1896) , designed 1862, first printed 1864, Hand block-printed paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Art Institute of Chicago: The Idea of Louis Sullivan
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St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley: Instructor/Assistant Professor Needed
Successful candidates will have knowledge of learning theory, experience in collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching techniques, a commitment to assessing and documenting student success and experience in using teaching to enhance learning...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing)
Visitors of Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing) will have the unique opportunity to experience the first iPod-delivered audio/visual tour offered by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The free interactive tour includes in...
US Art Gallery: Woord: A Collaboration between Pienaar van Niekerk and Louis Esterhuizen
Pienaar prefers not to “illustrate” the content, but rather to use words and text as intelectual, symbolic and even abstract material. I this way, text can be treated as texture and letters as form. Pienaar “plays” with different planes to ...
Laumeier Sculpture Park: Soo Sunny Park’s Bio-Structure: Metra Geo
Soo Sunny Park’s work is informed by the cyclical nature of life, her analysis of childhood memories, her cultural and scientific explorations, and her incredible inclination to intrigue audiences. Soo Sunny Park’s site-specific installation creat...
Forum for Contemporary Art: Ando Constructed: Photographs of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts by Robert Pettus, Curated by Mel Watkin
For three years prior to its completion, Pettus spent weekends roaming the construction site analyzing every detail. Alone, without the construction crew's presence, he shot hundreds of images that reflect the minimalist elegance of ...
Louvre Museum: The Treasury of the Sainte Chapelle
First of all, the relics and reliquaries from the Imperial Byzantine palaces...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Recent Acquisitions from the Textile Collection
Other selected acquisitions represent 20th-century technological and design developments. Several Japanese textiles made from inventive combinations of old traditions and new technologies will be on view, as well as a stylized floral-design...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Private Garden: The Jack and Elaine Folline Collection of the Works Of Louis Comfort Tiffany

Born in New York City to the founder of Tiffany & Co., Louis Comfort Tiffany began his career by studying painting with George Inness and Samuel Colman. Prompted by his fathers chief designer Edward C. Moore, Tiffany traveled throughout the Medite...
St. Louis Art Museum: Currents 80: Gary Simmons
With this photographic series, Simmons continues his fascination with classrooms and their contents, including seminar rooms, lecture halls and auditoriums inhabited by distinctive chairs, desks and black boards. This work is con...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight: Painting in Eighteenth-Century France from the Musee de Picardie, Amiens
Over the course of the eighteenth century, artists began to receive commissions not only from the court, but also from the bourgeoisie. This shift is reflected in the ...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard
Van Gogh actively participated in discussing and debating new ideas, which ultimately became the shape and substance of modern art in Europe. He identified these artists as the painters of the petit boulevard, a term that reflected their desire...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Rivane Neuenschwander: Joe Carioca
Neuenschwander used the children's drawings as points of departure throughout this film to construct a series of vignettes exploring the possibilities and challenges of intercultural communication. In one scene, a suitcase emits phrases for ...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Matthew Ritchie: The Iron City
In addition to the narrator's voice, The Iron City includes recordings of the earth's magnetic field described by Ritchie as "the earth's voice," a piece of music entitled "The City Didn't Sleep" by the defunct Polish group Miasto Nie Spal...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Intimate Pleasures - Asian Handscrolls and The Four Seasons in Asian Painting
Intimate Pleasures focuses on the unusual fonnat of the Asian hand scroll. Holding and unrolling a hand scroll is considered by connoisseurs to be the most enjoyable and satisfying way to view a calligraphy or painting. Small enough to put i...
Dallas Museum of Art: Circa 1900: Design at the Turn of the Century
Included in the exhibition will be furniture by the American arts and crafts master Gustav Stickley, as well as the French art nouveau designer Louis Majorelle. Frank Lloyd Wright designs, Louis Comfort tiffany glass, George Jensen silver, and...
Louvre Museum: Pieter Boel, Painter of Louis XIV's Animals - The collection of painted studies from the Gobelins
Since more than a century onwards, Pieter Boel' s studies, there are 80 of th...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Currents 83: Peter Doig
Currents 83: Peter Doig includes paintings and drawings from the1990s. It is the first solo museum exhibition of the artist's work in North America and was organized by the Berkeley Art Museum. Its presentation at the Saint Louis Art Museu...
Association for Visual Arts: Louis Jansen van Vuuren: Solo Exhibition
His work is represented in most major public and corporate art collections locally, including those of SANG, the Universities of Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape; First National Bank; Rand Merchant Bank; Investec; Boland ...
Saint Louis Art Museum: WONDERLAND
The ten artists participating in the exhibition – Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, Stephen Hendee, Bill Klaila, Joep van Lieshout, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Gregor Schneider, ...
Forum for Contemporary Art: Doug Ischar: Recent Works
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Saint Louis Art Museum: Art in Bloom: A Weekend of Flowers
This year's arrangements are being created by area garden clubs. Free docent-led tours will be available to give visitors a better understand of the artworks and their relationship to each flower arrangement. The honorary...
Bishop's University Art Gallery: Wavering Identities by Jacky G. Lafargue and Louis Couturier
The installation manipulates urban public space by playing, not on an ideal of integration, but on the unease or surprise ...
Musee d'Orsay: Daumier
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Saint Louis Art Museum: Currents 84: Christian Marclay
Marclay consistently draws viewers' attention to such themes as communication and translation, whether from one language to another or from sound into words. He often samples and mixes sounds and images to create engaging videos, collages...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Currents 99: Issac Julien
"True North" has been shown as three-screen, two-screen, and single-screen projections (each shot in 16-mm film transferred to DVD with an accompanying soundtrack), as well as a series of one-meter square color photographs, some conceived as...
Glass Art Society: Call for Artists: 36th Annual Conference - Glass Gateways - Meet in the Middle
For more information on the conference theme please go here: http://www.glassart.org/St.Louis_2006.html To Submit a Proposal

1) Fill out the presentation proposal form: http://www.g...
Contemporary Art Museum: Staging: Janieta Eyre, Julie Moos, Zwelethu Mthethwa
In her exhibit, Eyre photographs herself, as a surrogate, dressed in elaborate costumes set within fantastical rooms, which suggest scenarios that do not exist in real time. Incorporating complex literary references, art historical symbolism and h...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Tadao Ando - Architect
Ando's chosen building material is reinforced concrete. In plan, his buildings consist of geometric forms whose smooth concrete surfaces define pristine sculpted spaces. Ando is particularly masterful at incorporating light, water, and lands...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art
Organized thematically, the exhibition addresses some of the prevailing subjects that preoccupied Pop artists, including mass media, consumer culture, politics, and erotica. The exhibition begins with proto-Pop examples by artists such as Ja...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: Virgil Marti Opens New Work
Martis Morris Gallery installation will reference the Academys striking decorative program by building architect Frank Furness, as well as its historic curatorial practice, through the use of dramatic lighting, flocked wallpaper, and faux ease...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...
Craft Alliance: Function Follows Form, Artist-Made Furniture
Artists included in the exhibition are:
Dale Broholm
Andy Buck
Graham Campbell
Jill Henrietta Davis
Amy Forsyth
Jack Larimore
Mary Little
John McNaughton
Craig Nutt
Richard Prisco
Charles Swanson
Phi...
Frick Art and Historical Center: FROM THE SUN KING TO THE ROYAL TWILIGHT: PAINTING IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE FROM THE MUSEE DE PICARDIE, AMIENS
DeCourcy McIntosh, executive director of the Frick Art & Historical Center, says, “This exhibition provides a powerful antidote to the commonly held view of eighteenth-century French painting as ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection

More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: A...
Photographer's Gallery: John 'Hoppy' Hopkins - From the Hip: The 1960s
Later, Hoppy documented peace marches, poetry readings with a naked Allen Ginsberg, and photographed twentieth century icons such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. For Hoppy the Sixties were, Just a...
Forum for Contemporary Art: Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City
The exhibition comprised mostly of Bailey‚s paintings and works on paper also includes a 1,000-square-foot installation designed specifically for The Magic City and modified for the St. Louis site. The installation creates a unique environment...
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: The Printed World of Bruegel the Elder
Bruegel's gift for observation combined with his abundant imagination are reflected in prints based on his celebrated Alpine landscapes, as well as his seascapes, depictions of peasants, allegories, satires, and relevant interpretations of the...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: ETIENNE HAJDU: Sculptures and drawings
Etienne Hajdu was very close to Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva, a friendship which began in 1930 when the couple frequented the surrealist youth group Les Amis du Monde, of which Hajdu was a member. This exhibition, which is part of the cycl...
San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art: STRUCTURE AND SURFACE: Contemporary Japanese Textiles
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