1988.412: Untitled

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1988.412

People

Morris Louis, American (Baltimore, MD 1912 - 1962 Washington, DC)

Title

Untitled

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1953

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309758

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache on cream laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 39.8 x 51.7 cm (15 11/16 x 20 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: scratched in at l.r.: Louis 53
• watermark: [design with head [of Christ?] with upraised hand] 1399 [as sheet is set down, full watermark is not visible]

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

1988.412

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Diane Upright Headley, The Drawings of Morris Louis, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1979), pp. 59, 67 [note 64], 141; repr. pp. 60, 141
• Nehama Guralnik, ed., Morris Louis, exh. cat., Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel, 1980), no. 1, p. 14

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

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