Louis, Morris

Louis, Morris
orig. Morris Louis Bernstein

born Nov. 24, 1912, Baltimore, Md., U.S.
died Sept. 7, 1962, Washington, D.C.

U.S. painter.

He studied painting at the Maryland Institute and worked as an easel painter for the WPA Federal Art Project. Inspired by Helen Frankenthaler's colour stain technique, in 1954 he began a series of paintings titled Veils, featuring stained vertical waves of colour; these works had an impersonal, nonpainterly quality. During this period he became associated with the New York school of Abstract Expressionism. His later work featured diagonal parallel streams of colour that flowed across the bottom corners of the picture plane. In his last series, Stripes, bunched, straight vertical bands of colour are surrounded by empty canvas.

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▪ American artist
original name  Morris Bernstein  
born Nov. 24, 1912, Baltimore, Md., U.S.
died Sept. 7, 1962, Washington, D.C.

      American painter associated with the New York school of Abstract Expressionism who is notable for his distinctly personal use of colour, often in brilliant bands or stripes.

      Louis studied painting at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore (1929–33), and from 1937 to 1940 he worked as an easel painter in the Works Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art program. His early work was Cubistic, but his style changed abruptly in 1952 following his exposure to the Abstract Expressionist paintings of Jackson Pollock. In 1953 he was deeply impressed by Helen Frankenthaler's method of staining an untreated canvas with poured paint, and his later work took the form of stained vertical waves of colour, of which “Iris” (1954) is an example. After 1961 he painted in striking parallel streams of colour that flowed across the bottom corners of his pictures. In his last works he used vertical, straight stripes of colour.

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