Morris Louis's Seal, 1959, Estate of Morris Louis.
(High Museum of Art through January 24, 2007 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Feb. 17–May 6, 2007)
“Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited” is the first consideration of Washington, D.C.–based artist Morris Louis’s work since 1986. The exhibition presents major paintings dating from the early 1950s until his death in late 1962, the years Louis developed an innovative method of painting by “staining” his unprimed canvases with thinned washes of acrylic pigments.
Even in cramped quarters in Washington D.C., Louis was able to make large paintings, achieving an exuberant, lyrical celebration of colors hovering in white space.
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