About Morris Louis
Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed a loose cohort of artists that is known today as the Washington Color School. Louis produced a body of work defined by large-scale canvases and innovative staining techniques using Magna acrylic paints. Between 1954 and his death in 1962, Louis developed a sequence of painting series that marked distinct stylistic phases in his artistic evolution. These major series include the Veils, Florals, Columns, Alephs, Unfurleds, and Stripe paintings. Each group illustrates Louis's deep engagement with color, form, and materiality, and collectively they represent a pioneering contribution to postwar American abstraction. == Early life and education == Morris Louis Bernstein was born on November 28, 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the third of four sons born to Louis Bernstein and Cecelia Bernstein (née Luckman), a middle-class Jewish family. Louis Bernstein, an emigré from Russia, worked in a factory and later owned a grocery store.
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