Legal Records
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
- 1962-1989
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.louimorr, Subseries 2.3
- 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
- Legal records contain documentation of the Bernstein v. Brenner lawsuit and trial, including trial notes and preparation notes; correspondence between I.S. Weissbrodt as the Morris Louis Estate lawyer and relevant parties; copies of the settlement contract from the trial; and a court-mandated inventory of the Louis Estate artwork holdings and subsequent records of whereabouts, sales, and transfers. Correspondence with I.S. Weissbrodt spans 25 years and includes notes to and from Marcella Brenner regarding sale of Morris Louis artwork, issues as they arose, gallery contracts and agreements, deeds of gift records, and other legal documents. Documentation of the Bernstein v. Brenner lawsuit is incomplete.
- 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-1503511449825-1503511449876-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0