Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center
Morris Louis
1912 - 1962
Split Spectrum
signed, titled twice and dated '61 (on the reverse)
Magna on canvas
81 ½ by 48 in.
207 by 121.9 cm.
Executed in 1961.
Condition Report
Provenance
Estate of the artist
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Judy and Kenneth Dayton, Minneapolis (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 2022 by the present owner
Literature
Elwin Lynn, "Louis in Australia", Art International, November 1971, p. 33
Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1985, no. 490, p.177, illustrated in color
Exhibited
Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Focus on Light, May - September 1967
Edmonton Art Gallery, Ten Washington Artists: 1950- 1970, February - March 1970, no. 3, p. 4, illustrated
Honolulu Academy of Arts; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Auckland City Art Gallery and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Morris Louis, April 1971 - February 1972, no. 8, illustrated
New York School of Visual Arts, American Color: 1961- 1964, March - April 1976
Orlando, Loch Haven Art Center; Tampa, University of South Florida and Miami-Dade Community College, Two Decades of Abstraction, September 1978 - March 1979
South Bend, The Art Center, Twentieth-Century American Masters, January - February 1978
Los Angeles, Asher/Faure Gallery, André Emmerich Presents Paintings by Morris Louis, May - June 1979
Paris, Grand Palais, L'Amerique aux Independants, March - April 1980, p. 92, illustrated in color (on the cover)
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Morris Louis 1912 - 1962: An Exhibition to Mark the Publication of Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, September 1985, no. 12, illustrated in color
