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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1988.410
People
Morris Louis, American (Baltimore, MD 1912 - 1962 Washington, DC)
Title
Untitled (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1940
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309757

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache on cream wove paper; verso: black crayon and pastel
Dimensions
actual: 44.8 x 67.2 cm (17 5/8 x 26 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: gouache, l.l.: M Louis-40-; verso, pastel, l.r.: M Louis 39
  • blind stamp: l.r.: ML [in oval]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Morris Louis, bequest; to Marcella Louis Brenner, 1962, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1988.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marcella Louis Brenner in honor of John Coolidge
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1988
Object Number
1988.410
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Diane Upright Headley, The Drawings of Morris Louis, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1979), pp. 26-27, repr. p. 26 (r.); pp. 23-24, repr. p. 23 (v.); p. 140, repr. (r&v)
  • Nehama Guralnik, ed., Morris Louis, exh. cat., Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel, 1980), no. 49, p. 15, repr.

Exhibition History

  • The Drawings of Morris Louis, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, 12/06/1979 - 02/03/1980; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/22/1980 - 04/06/1980
  • Morris Louis, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 11/25/1980 - 01/25/1981; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 02/03/1981 - 04/05/1981

Verification Level

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