Number 99
1959–1960
Morris Louis
Morris Louis (American, 1912–1962)
American Painting and Sculpture
Number 99, 1959–1960. Morris Louis (American, 1912–1962). Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas; unframed: 251.3 x 360.5 cm (98 15/16 x 141 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1968.110 © Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Rights Administered by Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York, All Rights Reserved. Louis is associated with the Washington Color School, a group of painters based in Washington, DC, during the 1960s and '70s. These artists tended to create large colorful compositions with repeated shapes, often using diluted paint. Astonishingly, Louis painted his large canvases in his modest 12 x 14-foot dining room.
- Maker/Artist
- Louis, Morris
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 251.3 x 360.5 cm (98 15/16 x 141 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: written on back of stretcher (in pencil): Louis 99
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1968.110
- Credit Line
- Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1968, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, Morris Lewis: The Veil Cycle, Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited, High Museum of Art (10/28/2006 - 1/21/2007), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2/10/2007 - 5/6/2007), and the Hirshorrn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (9/19/2007 - 1/6/2008): "Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited"
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- ArtLens Exhibition C
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