{"id":8434,"date":"2013-10-20T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T11:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:51:08","slug":"morris-louis-an-early-leader-in-postwar-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/10\/morris-louis-an-early-leader-in-postwar-abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Louis: An Early Leader in Postwar Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303918804579107542851145688\">Morris Louis: An Early Leader in Postwar Abstraction<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; for those who are fans of the Color Field artist Morris Louis, there is a small exhibition of his work at the Baltimore Museum of Art (it runs through February 9). \u00a0Louis, who died just shy of his 50th birthday, produced about 600 large canvases in less than 12 years. \u00a0Included in the exhibit are the works donated to the museum in 2011 by the estate of Marcella Louis Brenner (the artist&#8217;s widow).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303918804579107542851145688\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"PJ-BR077_louis_G_20131015225523\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PJ-BR077_louis_G_20131015225523.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morris Louis<br \/>&#8220;Dalet Beth&#8221; (1958)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morris Louis: An Early Leader in Postwar Abstraction\u00a0&#8211; for those who are fans of the Color Field artist Morris Louis, there is a small exhibition of his work at the Baltimore Museum of Art (it runs through February 9). \u00a0Louis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/10\/morris-louis-an-early-leader-in-postwar-abstraction\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[11,9],"class_list":["post-8434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.7 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Morris Louis: An Early Leader in Postwar Abstraction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/10\/morris-louis-an-early-leader-in-postwar-abstraction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morris Louis: An Early Leader in Postwar Abstraction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Morris Louis: An Early Leader in Postwar Abstraction\u00a0&#8211; 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