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ID: 500012330
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012330
 
Record Type: Person
Louis, Morris (American painter, 1912-1962)

Note: Morris Louis received his degree from the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts in Baltimore in 1933. He began by painting in a cubist style that he later abandoned in favor of post-painterly abstraction. In 1936, Louis moved to New York and befriended Leonard Bocour, who developed a special acrylic-resin Magna paint for him. Active in New York and Washington D.C., Louis is also considered one of the Washington color painters.

Names:
Louis, Morris (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Louis, Morris (Dutch-P,NA)
Morris Louis (V,display)
Morris Louis Bernstein (legally changed name in 1938) (V)
Bernstein, Morris Louis (U)
Bernstein, Maurice (U)
לואיס, מוריס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Baltimore (Baltimore Independent City, Maryland, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Washington (DC, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Washington (DC, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
colleague of ....  Noland, Kenneth  
......................  (American painter, 1924-2010) [500003418]
student of ....  Siqueiros, David Alvaro  
..................  (Mexican painter, 1896-1974) [500008908]
teacher of ....  Driskell, David Clyde  
..................  (American scholar, painter, and curator, 1931-2020) [500077890]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Louis, Morris (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, 1912-1962) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, 1912-1962) ..... [BHA]
(American painter, 1912-1962) ..... [GRLPA]
(American artist, 1912-1962) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, 1912-1962) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1912-1962) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American painter, 1912-1962) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1912-1962) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1912-1962) ..... [MoMA]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(American painter, 1912-1962) ..... [IMJ]
(American painter, 1912-1962) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
לואיס, מוריס ........ [IMJ]
........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Bernstein, Maurice ........ [GRL]
......................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79090064
Bernstein, Morris Louis ........ [GRL, Grove Art, RKD]
...............................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79090064
...............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 51007
Louis, Morris ........ [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79090064
............................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
............................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 51007
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Morris Louis ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Morris Louis Bernstein ........ [VP]
.............................................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 15 February 2005

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Bruce and Wells, Art and Context, the '50s and '60s (2006) 50
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79090064
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 15 February 2005
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79090064
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 51007
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q685186
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Bruce and Wells, Art and Context, the '50s and '60s (2006) 50
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