Paul Kasmin Gallery

We are standing before a rectangle of canvas on a stretcher, perhaps 20 feet wide by 8 feet tall. About a dozen trickles of poured color run from the sides down to the bottom, forming loosely traingular shapes that nestle into the other.

Morris Louis's stained paintings can look as if they were made about a minute ago. Louis, who died in 1962 at 49, painted himseld into a corner and didn't live long enough to work his way out.

With these two Greenberg proteges under your belt, you will want to visit with one of the critic's favorite painters, Morris Louis. Paul Kasmin has a varied selection of large canvases from 1958-60, the years when, quite late in his truncated career, Louis hit...

The late fifties were big for Louis. Getting out of a cab one day, he met Barnett Newman, thereby gaining entree into the upper echelons of the New York art world; when paintings for his first and second solo exhibitions were personally...

When I say nice things in print about the American abstract painter Morris Louis, a friend invariably sends me a chastising note: Why was I "gushing" about "that furniture-showroom decorator"? Another letter will soon be on its way.

Washingtonians making a holiday trip to New York won't want to miss the Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea. An exhibition of works by Morris Louis includes pieces never shown before - some of the...

Billie Milam Weisman is the Director and President of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and President of the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation.

"The way an old general must feel when he gazes at the stars on his shoulders and the stripes on his chest, that's how I feel about these things on my walls," proclaims emigre art dealer Andre Emmerich, whose East 57th Street gallery made history with the art of our time.

Examine this not so hypothetical design dilemma. A client wants a modern interior, but lives in a space that far predates the mid-twentieth century, the era that produced the furnishings we think of as "modern"...