Louis, Morris

Louis, Morris (Bernstein)

(1912–62) painter; born in Baltimore, Md. He studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts (1929–33), and remained in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area. His work was strongly influenced by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, and he adapted her staining method to produce a group of paintings called Veils (c. 1954–59), and another collection of florals, Aleph Series (c. 1960). A prolific and inventive artist, his last series, Unfurleds (c. 1960), used broken diagonals.

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