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Morris Louis

Morris Louis (1912 - 1962) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Maryland.  Morris Louis is known for Serial abstract painting-stains and stripes.

Born in Baltimore with the name of Morris Bernstein, Morris Louis, working from Washington DC, became a major figure in the mid 20th-century contemporary art scene on the East Coast.  He was also a distinguished teacher.  Louis is known for his drip paintings, the pouring of thinned acrylic paint onto unprimed or partially primed canvases.  His later paintings had irregular stripes of bright colour, often overlapping and merging.  He deliberately disassociated himself from the painterly-ness of the loaded brush of the abstract expressionists and pursuing his methods of using thinned paint was, along with Helen Frankenthaller, one of the key figures in the movement called Color Field painting.

His parents were immigrants from Russia, and Morris Louis was the third of their four sons.  He attended public school in Baltimore and then went on to Gwynns Falls Junior High School, and Baltimore City College.  In a state competition that he e   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9907 characters.]  Artist bio

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