THE NEW YORK TIMES
Morris Louis
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. But in that corner he reached a modernist pinnacle in terms of freshness and immediacy, with his breathtakingly economical conversion or gesture, liquid color and canvas into abstract painting...
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THE NEW YORK SUN
Gallery-Going
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...
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THE NEW YORKER
Morris Louis
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...
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NEW YORK OBSERVER
Lush, Sure, Terse
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. The monumental Louis canvases currently at the Paul Kasmin Gallery made my head spin with pleasure. It's one of the best shows...
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THE WASHINGTON POST
If You're Scouting for Art in New York...
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...
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ARCO
An Interview with Billie Milam Weisman
Billie Milam Weisman is the Director and President of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and President of the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation. She was born in Minnesota and raised in Los Angeles. She has always had art around her - her mother was a school artist, her sister an art major, and her uncle a commercial artist.
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ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
Strokes of Genius
"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. At one point it even sprouted branches in Zurich as well as SoHo, so that the Frankfurt-born, Amsterdam-bred dealer was as familiar a figure in the museums, galleries and auction houses of London and the Continent as he was in New York.
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HOUSE & GARDEN
Second Sight
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"...