Morris Louis 1912-1962 Born Morris Bernstein in Baltimore, Maryland, Louis studied art at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts from 1929 to 1933. He worked for the WPA Federal Art Project until the late 1930's.

Labeled a "post-Abstract Expressionist" painter, Louis evolved a style that produced a complete integration of paint and canvas. Forsaking the three dimensions, Louis worked on emeshing spectrums of color, differentiated by hue, filling his canvases with "color space" without perspective. Louis was greatly influenced by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell. His work is represented in the Allentown Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), the Guggenheim and the Whitney.
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I was reviewing some of my recent work and pondering what or whom they might reference and I came to this image. I knew it struck a chord with my memory. It took a little while of looking and searching till I found the image it related to. The artist is Morris Louis and the painting is called “Where.” Louis was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts from 1929 to 1933. It is now called, The Maryland Institute College of Art. This is the college where I did my undergraduate degree. Louis was long gone when I arrived in 1967 but his still talked about in my classes, so it’s almost ironic to me to revisit him now.

Morris Louis, Where, 1960
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