Photographs
Object Details
- Collection Artist
- Louis, Morris, 1912-1962
- See more items in
- Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers
- Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers / Series 2: Morris Louis Estate Papers
- Sponsor
- Partial funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust.
- Date
- circa 1950s-2001
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.louimorr, Subseries 2.7
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate Papers, circa 1910s-2007, bulk 1965-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents
- Photographs consist primarily of gallery installation photographs of Morris Louis paintings and drawings.There are also images of Marcella Brenner and Andre Emmerich; slides of Morris Louis paintings owned by his estate; photographs of unstretched, unrolled Morris Louis paintings housed at the Santini Brothers Warehouse; a photograph of a Morris Louis-like Lichtenstein work, noted as "Roy Lichtenstein's Variation of a Louis 'Unfurled'"; photographs taken at two Morris Louis exhibition openings; and color and black and white transparencies of Morris Louis artwork.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center. Many of the audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with 26 artists conducted by Anita Faatz in 1970-1971 are access restricted and written permission is required from the person interviewed. Please contact reference services for more information. Any use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511449825-1503511449884-3
- Metadata Usage
- CC0