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Morris Louis
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Born 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland
Colorfield Painting
US-American, 20th century
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| 1927 – 1932 |
Study at the Maryland Institute of Arts in Baltimore |
| 1936 |
Morris Louis moves to New York; attendance at workshop of David Alfaro Siqueiros |
| 1952 |
Assistant professor at Washington Workshop Center of Arts; he meets Kenneth Noland
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| 1953 – 1961 |
Morris Louis acquires his own style after the methods of Helen Frankenthaler und Jackson Pollock.
He is known for the pouring of thinned acrylic paint onto unprimed or partially primed canvases.
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| 1962 | Morris Louis dies in Washington |
| 1963 |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Morris Louis - 1912-1962, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings from 1954-1960, New York |
| 1964 – 1968 |
Group exhibtions: documenta 3 and documenta 4, Kassel |
| 1976 |
National Gallery of Art: Morris Louis, Major Themes & Variations, Washington |
| 1977 |
Walker Art Center: Morris Louis, The Veil Cycle, Minneapolis |
| 1979 |
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution: The Drawings of Morris Louis, Washington |
| 1985 |
André Emmerich Gallery: Morris Louis Drawings 1948-1955, New York;
Group exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art: Contemporary Works from the Collection, New York
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| 1986 |
Museum of Fine Arts: Morris Louis in Boston, Boston |
| 1989 |
Group exhibition, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando: Tesoros de last colecciones particulares madrileñas:
Pintura y Escultura Contemporáneas, Madrid
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| 1990 |
Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt/Main |
| 1999 |
Group exhibition: The Rose Art Museum: Alchemies of the Sixties, Waltham |
| 2003 – 2004 |
Group exhibition, Museum Bochum: Das Recht des Bildes - Jüdische Perspektiven in der modernen Kunst, Bochum |
| 2005 |
Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Post-World War II Trends, Tel Aviv |
| 2006 |
Ulster Museum, Belfast: A New Age, American Painting from the 1950s and 1960s, Belfast |
| 2007 – 2008 |
Paul Kasmin Gallery: Morris Louis, New York;
EL SOURDOG HEX: Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Colorfield Painting (paintings, 1954-1963), Berlin;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Morris Louis Now - An American Master Revisited, Washington;
Group exhibitions: Staatliche Kunsthalle: Who´ s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Positions in Color Field Painting, Baden-Baden;
Phillips Collection: Lyrical Color, Washington
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| 2008 |
Group exhibitions: Fondation Beyeler: Action Painting, Basel;
Stedelijk Museum: Presence of Mind - A Choice of Works from the Collection by Wolfgang Tillmans, Amsterdam
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| 2009 |
Group exhibiton, Whitney Museum: SYNTHETIC, New York |