Archives of American Art
Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers
Louis, Morris, 1912-1962
AAA.louimorr
Archival Resource Key
17.8 Linear feet
circa 1910s-2007
bulk 1965-2000
The Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers measure 17.8 linear feet and date from circa 1912-2007, with the bulk of the material dating from 1965-2000. The collection documents Morris Louis' career as a Color Field painter and founding participant in the Washington Color School, as well as the subsequent administration of his estate by his wife Marcella Brenner. Found within Morris Louis' papers are biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, scattered financial records, notes, writings, printed materials, and a canvas sample. The Morris Louis Estate papers include records of gallery exhibitions, mostly André Emmerich Gallery; artwork inventories; legal records concerning the lawsuit Bernstein v. Brenner; financial records of the sale of Louis' artwork; printed materials; writings about Louis; photographs of exhibition installations and artwork; and project files which include documentation of film projects by Robert Pierce Productions, a catalog raisonne, documentation of PBS documentaries, video recordings of the exhibition "Morris Louis Now", and numerous sound recordings of interviews with artists discussing Morris Louis conducted by Anita Faatz.
Most of the collection is in English; some records are in Czech, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and other languages.
Conditions Governing Access
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.
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Preferred Citation
Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate Papers, circa 1910s-2007, bulk 1965-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged as 2 series.
Missing Title
- Series 1: Morris Louis Papers, circa 1910s-1998 (2.9 linear feet; Boxes 1-3)
- Series 2: Morris Louis Estate Papers, 1947-2007 (14.9 linear feet; Boxes 3-19, OV 20)
Biographical / Historical
Morris Louis (1912-1962) was one of the earliest American Color Field painters, and, along with other Washington, D.C., painters, formed the movement known as the Washington Color School.
Born in Baltimore, M.D., to Russian immigrants Louis Bernstein and Cecelia Luckman, Morris Louis attended the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts from 1927-1932 and served as president of the Baltimore Artists' Association in 1935. During the Depression, he worked in New York City on the steering committee of the Easel Division of the Federal Arts Projects of the Works Project Administration (WPA). He exhibited Broken Bridge at the WPA Pavilion of the New York World's Fair in 1939.
In 1947, Louis married Marcella (Siegel) Brenner, and moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, a close suburb of Washington, D.C., where he taught private art classes and continued painting, using his apartment bedroom as a studio. In 1948, Louis participated in the Maryland Artists, 16th Annual Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and began using Leonard Bocour's Magna acrylic paint, which he would use exclusively for the rest of his painting career.
In 1952, Morris Louis and Marcella Brenner moved to Washington, D.C. and set up a studio in his home where he would complete his most notable canvases. He began teaching at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts and met artist Kenneth Noland who was also exploring Color Field painting. Through Noland, Louis met art critic Clement Greenberg in 1953, and they visited artist studios in New York City to study abstract expressionist works, including those by Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline. Louis and Noland were greatly influenced by Frankenthaler's staining technique, and Louis began experimenting with staining methods upon his return to Washington. Clement Greenberg became a life-long advocate for Louis and, in 1954, included Louis in the seminal group exhibition, "Emerging Talent," organized by Greenberg for the Kootz Gallery. In 1960, Andre Emmerich became his dealer in the United States and Lawrence Rubin represented him in Paris.
Using thinned Magna paint and unstretched, unprimed canvases, Louis created his works by rotating the canvas as the paint moved across and soaked in. Between 1958 and 1962 Louis produced three major series of paintings—the Veils, the Unfurleds, and the Stripes. Each series numbered more than one hundred canvases. Louis never documented his exact painting methods and would not allow anyone to watch him work, including his wife. His own worst critic, Louis destroyed many of his paintings that did meet his standards, including a large number of his earliest works and many created between 1954 and 1957. He also designated numerous surviving works for destruction prior to his death.
Louis was diagnosed with lung cancer on July 1, 1962 and died a few months later. The Andre Emmerich Gallery held a previously scheduled exhibition as planned, a month following Louis' death, as a memorial exhibition.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers were donated by Marcella Brenner in several installments in 1976, 1986, and 1988. Subsequent donations in 2009 and 2012 were donated by Marcella Brenner via Ann M. Garfinkle, Executor. The Anita Faatz interviews were donated in 1976 by Marcella Brenner.
Related Materials
Also found at the Archives of American Art are the Marcella Brenner journals, 1962-2000. The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) also holds papers of Morris Louis and the Morris Louis Estate in their Morris Louis Study Collection.
Processing Information
Portions of the collection were initially processed by Jean Fitzgerald and microfilmed on reels 4988-4944 with funding provided by grants from Jack Amsterdam, the Bezalel Foundation, Inc. (Henry Sonneborn III), Ms. Miriam Klein, Philip L. Milstein, Norman M. Morris, and Solomon Star, Esq.
Later additions to the collection were sorted, integrated with earlier accretions, and processed by Jennifer Snyder and Anna Rimel in 2013-2014 with support provided by the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust. A finding aid was completed in 2014-2015 by Anna Rimel and Barbara Aikens.
Existence and Location of Copies
Portions of the collection are available on 35 mm microfilm reels 4988-4994 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Scope and Contents
The Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers measure 17.8 linear feet and date from circa 1912-2007, with the bulk of the material dating from 1965-2000. The collection documents Morris Louis' career as a Color Field painter and founding participant in the Washington Color School, as well as the subsequent administration of his estate by his wife Marcella Brenner. Found within Morris Louis' papers are biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, scattered financial records, notes, writings, printed materials, and a canvas sample. The Morris Louis Estate papers include records of gallery exhibitions, mostly André Emmerich Gallery; artwork inventories; legal records concerning the lawsuit Bernstein v. Brenner; financial records of the sale of Louis' artwork; printed materials; writings about Louis; photographs of exhibition installations and artwork; and posthumous project files which include documentation of film projects by Robert Pierce Productions, a catalog raisonne, PBS documentaries, video recordings of the exhibition "Morris Louis Now", and numerous sound recordings of interviews with artists, many with transcripts, discussing Morris Louis and conducted by Anita Faatz.
Within the Morris Louis papers (circa 3 linear feet) are scattered biographical materials for Morris Louis and Marcella Brenner. Correspondence is with family friends, artists, and galleries, the bulk of which consists of photocopies. Of note are letters from Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, Kenneth Noland, and Anne Truitt. Business records include lists of artwork, receipts for art supplies, and scattered tax records. Six notebooks belonging to Morris Louis contain miscellaneous notes about students, studio rental payments, addresses, travel expenses, and a short list of paintings. There is one notebook of Marcella Brenner's containing notes about expenses and addresses. Also found are printed materials, one canvas sample, and one embossing stamp. Photographs are of Morris Louis, Marcella Brenner, and the Bernstein family.
The majority of the collection (circa 15 linear feet) consists of records created and maintained by Marcella Brenner in the course of managing Louis' estate and posthumous exhibitions and projects. There are numerous gallery exhibition records for many posthumous and retrospective exhibitions between 1965 through 2002, including those held at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum, and numerous other U.S. and international galleries and museums. Louis' artwork is documented in highly detailed inventory lists and cards. Legal records document the lawsuit brought by the Bernstein family against Marcella Brenner which began in 1964 and ended in 1970 in favor of Brenner. Financial records document sales.
Printed materials include clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and other miscellaneous materials. Writings include essays about Louis and manuscript copies of the book Trustee for the Human Race: Litigation over the Morris Louis Paintings written by Ruth S. Blau under contract for Marcella Brenner. Photographs are primarily of artwork depicted in exhibition installations. Project files are found for several posthumous documentary film projects and a catalog raisonne, and include a series of audio recordings of interviews of 27 artists conducted by Anita Faatz in 1970-1971. Artists interviewed include Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, Andre Emmerich, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and many others.
Video recordings
Transcripts
Sound recordings
Interviews
Washington Color School (Group of artists)
Painters -- United States
Photographs
Law and art -- United States
Color-field painting
Art -- Study and teaching
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Abstract expressionism
Brenner, Marcella, 1912-2007
Bocour, Leonard, 1910-1993
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
Faatz, Anita J. (Anita Josephine)
Robert Pierce/Films, Inc.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Noland, Kenneth, 1924-2010
Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
André Emmerich Gallery
Truitt, Anne, 1921-2004
Morris Louis Papers
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
2.9 Linear feet
Boxes 1-3
circa 1910s-1998
bulk 1950-1962
Arrangement
This series is arranged as 7 subseries.
Missing Title
- 1.1 Biographical Material, 1964-1966
- 1.2 Correspondence, 1941-1998
- 1.3 Business Records, 1948-1963
- 1.4 Notebooks, circa 1947-1962
- 1.5 Printed Material, 1937-1962
- 1.6 Artifacts, circa 1950s
- 1.7 Photographs, 1910s-1962
Scope and Contents
Within the Morris Louis papers (circa 3 linear feet) are scattered biographical materials, including chronologies and resumes, for Morris Louis and Marcella Brenner. Correspondence is with family friends, artists, and galleries, the bulk of which consists of photocopies. Of note are letters from Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, Kenneth Noland, and Anne Truitt. Among the correspondence are condolence cards and guest book pages of a Louis exhibition at Andre Emmerich Gallery in 1961 with notable signatures. Business records include lists of artwork, receipts for art supplies, and scattered tax records.
Six notebooks belonging to Morris Louis contain notes about house measurements, student attendance and payments, studio rental payments, addresses, travel expenses, and a short list of paintings with dimensions and numbers assigned by Louis. One notebook of Marcella Brenner's contains notes about expenses, addresses, and miscellany. Printed materials include exhibition catalogs and announcements, brochures, and clippings. There is one canvas sample and one embossing stamp. Photographs are of Morris Louis, Marcella Brenner, and the Bernstein family.
Biographical Material
1.1
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1964-1966
Scope and Contents
Biographical materials include chronology drafts, resumes, a "'dialogue' with Dr. Ira Lewis" written by Louis, a handwritten recipe card, and a resume and biographical notes for Marcella Brenner.
Morris Louis Dialogue with Dr. Ira Lewis
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undated
1
1
Morris Louis Recipe Card
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undated
1
2
Biographical Accounts About Morris Louis
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1964-1966
1
3
Biographical Materials for Marcella Brenner
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1964
1
4
Correspondence
1.2
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1941-1998
bulk 1957-1970
Scope and Contents
Correspondence consists of letters to and from family, artists, and galleries. Many of the letters prior to 1962 are photocopies and thermofax copies of originals not included in the collection. Correspondence after 1962 is with galleries and artists (and others) primarily concerning artwork and exhibitions.
Of note are letters from art critic Clement Greenberg and artists Helen Frankenthaler, Anne Truitt, Kenneth Noland, and others. Also included in correspondence are the guest book pages from a Morris Louis show at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in October 1961, with signatures of Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, David Smith, Frank Stella, Paul Jenkins, Kenneth Noland, Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Michael Fried, and others.
Bernstein Family
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1941-1980
1
5
General Correspondence
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1941-1998
1
6-26
Condolence Cards to Marcella Brenner
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1962
1
27
Personal Business Records
1.3
Archival Resource Key
1948-1963
Scope and Contents
Personal business records consist of lists of artwork, receipts for household and art supplies, and scattered banking and tax records.
Lists of Art Works
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1960-1962
1
28
Receipts, Automobile
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1957-1963
1
29-31
Receipts, Bocour Paint
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1957-1962
1
32-37
Receipts, Chevy Chase Paint and Hardware Co.
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1955-1962
1
38-43
Receipts, Dyer Brothers, Inc.
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1951-1952
1
44
Receipts, Educational Institutions
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1953-1958
1
45
Arrangement
Folders are arranged by type of expense (ex: household) and by vendor. Materials are arranged chronologically within the folders.
Receipts, Fezande and Sperrle, Inc.
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1951-1960
1
46
Receipts, George F. Muth Co.
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circa 1951
1
47
Receipts, Headstone Purchase
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1963
1
48
Receipts, Health Care
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1955-1962
1
49
Receipts, Household Expenses
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1952-1962
1
50-64
Receipts, James McCutcheon & Co.
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circa 1952-circa 1953
1
65
Receipts, John Boyle & Co., Inc.
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1953-1962
1
66-72
Receipts, John Boyle & Co., Inc.
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1953-1962
2
1-2
Receipts, McIntire Hardware
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circa 1954
2
3
Receipts, Miscellaneous
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1951-1960
2
4-5
Receipts, Rohm & Haas Company
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1955-1961
2
6-14
Receipts, Safeway
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circa 1950s
2
15
Receipts, Shipment of Artwork
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1951-1960
2
16
Receipts, Stockett-Fiske Co.
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1951
2
17
Receipts, Studio Rent
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1956-1958
2
18
Receipts, Travel Expenses
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1951-1962
2
19
Receipts, Wick Byron-Brown, Inc.
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1951-1952
2
20
Banking Records
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1952-1962
2
21-51
Income Tax Records
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1951-1962
2
52-55
Personal Property Tax Returns
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1952-1954
2
56
Federal Tax Returns, Morris & Marcella
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1948-1961
2
57
Notebooks
1.4
Archival Resource Key
circa 1947-1962
Scope and Contents
There are six notebooks by Morris Louis and one belonging to Marcella Brenner. Notebook #1 contains various room measurements within an unnamed house with references to fixture costs. Notebooks #2-4 are daybooks containing records of payments and attendance of art students, studio rental payments, and some student addresses and phone numbers. Notebook #5 contains addresses as well as a short list of paintings with dimensions and numbers assigned by Louis. Notebook #6 includes New York travel expense lists and New York important addresses. Notebook #7 contains Marcella Brenner's notes about an education conference expenses and other miscellaneous notes and addresses.
Notebook 1
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circa 1947-circa 1962
3
1
Notebook 2
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1956
3
2
Notebook 3
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1957
3
3
Notebook 4
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1957-1958
3
4
Notebook 5 and Address Book
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1959-1962
3
5
Notebook 6
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1961
3
6
Notebook 7 (Marcella Brenner)
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1961-1962
3
7
Printed Material
1.5
Archival Resource Key
1937-1962
Scope and Contents
Printed material includes brochures, clippings, exhibition catalogs, and exhibition events and announcements.
Brochures
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1950-1960
3
8
Clippings
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1950-1963
3
9-17
Exhibition Catalogs
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1948-1952
3
18
Exhibition Catalogs: "Morris Louis, April 1959"
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1959
3
19
Exhibition Catalogs
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1960-1961
3
20
Exhibition Catalogs: Galerie Lawrence
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1962
3
21
Exhibition Catalogs: "Art Since 1950"
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1962
3
22
Exhibition Events & Announcements
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1937-1961
3
23-26
Artifacts
1.6
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
Scope and Contents
Artifacts include a canvas sample inscribed with "No. 26 Dawn," and an embossing stamp "for drawings" of Morris Louis.
Canvas Sample
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circa 1950s
3
27
Embossing Stamp
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circa 1950s
3
28
Photographs
1.7
Archival Resource Key
1910s-1962
Scope and Contents
Photographs include those of the Bernstein family, of Morris Louis, and of Morris Louis with Marcella Brenner. There are also metal printing plates of 4 Morris Louis photographs and copy prints, reproductions, and duplicates.
Bernstein Family Photographs
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1910s-1951
3
29
Morris Louis Photographs
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1942-1960
3
30-32
Morris Louis Photographs, Negatives
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circa 1950s
3
33
Metal Plates of Morris Louis Photograph
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circa 1956
3
34-35
Morris Louis & Marcella Brenner Photographs
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1947-1962
3
36
Morris Louis Photographs, Reproductions
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circa 1943-1960
3
37
Morris Louis Estate Papers
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
14.9 Linear feet
Boxes 3-19, OV 20
1947-2007
bulk 1965-2000
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection (circa 15 linear feet) consists of records created and maintained by Marcella Brenner in the course of managing Louis' estate and posthumous exhibitions and projects. Gallery exhibition records include printed materials, photographs, slides, price lists, invoices, and scattered correspondence for many posthumous and retrospective exhibitions between 1965 through 2002. Files are found for several exhibitions at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, Hayward Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and numerous other U.S. and international galleries and museums.
Louis' artwork is well-documented in highly detailed inventory lists and cards. Legal records document the lawsuit brought by the Bernstein family against Marcella Brenner which began in 1964 and ended in 1970 in favor of Brenner, as well as 25 years of correspondence between Brenner and attorney I. S. Weissbrodt. Extensive sales records are found in the financial records, as well as scattered tax records.
Printed materials include calendars, clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and other miscellaneous materials. Writings include essays about Louis and manuscript copies of the book Trustee for the Human Race: Litigation over the Morris Louis Paintings written by Ruth S. Blau under contract for Marcella Brenner. Photographs are primarily of artwork depicted in exhibition installations.
Project files are found for several posthumous documentary film projects and a catalog raisonne. Several of the projects contain only interviews provided by Brenner in support of the project, but others contain original research documentation. One such project was a series of audio recordings of interviews commissioned by Brenner and conducted by Anita Faatz in 1970-1971 with 27 artists talking about Morris Louis, his work, their relationships with him, and his influences. Faatz conducted interviews with Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, Andre Emmerich, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Noland, among many others.
Arrangement
This series is arranged as 8 subseries.
Missing Title
- 2.1 Gallery Exhibitions, 1947-2002
- 2.2 Art Records and Inventories, 1960-1992
- 2.3 Legal Records, 1962-1989
- 2.4 Financial Records, 1959-1998
- 2.5 Printed Material, 1960-2006
- 2.6 Writings, 1963-1988
- 2.7 Photographs, circa 1950s-2001
- 2.8 Project Files, 1966-2007
Gallery Records
2.1
Archival Resource Key
1947-2002
Scope and Contents
Gallery records document numerous exhibitions and openings and include exhibition announcements, clippings, photographs, slides, price lists, invoices of artwork sales, notes of receipt and transfer of Morris Louis artwork, and communications with Marcella Brenner. Also included is one sound cassette of a Dore Ashton lecture on Morris Louis' Charred Journals exhibition at the Jewish Museum in 1997.
The bulk of the gallery records document exhibitions held at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, which represented Morris Louis for over 50 years. Other galleries represented within the files include private collections, international museums, national museums, and permanent collections.
Andre Emmerich Gallery
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1965-1968
3
38-43
Andre Emmerich Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1968-1970
4
1-14
Andre Emmerich Gallery
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1971-1975
4
15-40
Andre Emmerich Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1976-1979
4
41-56
Andre Emmerich Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1980-1984
4
57-61
Andre Emmerich Gallery
Archival Resource Key
circa 1985-1995
5
1-14
Scope and Contents
Oversized material located in box 19, folder 1.
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Photographs
Archival Resource Key
1947-1962
5
15-18
Ackland Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1986-1990
5
19
Auckland City Art Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1971-1972
5
20
Australian National Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1982
5
21
Baltimore Museum of Art
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1977-1985
5
22-23
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Morris Louis Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1979-1991
5
24-28
Scope and Contents
Oversized material located in box 19, folder 2.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Archival Resource Key
1975-1986
5
29-35
Cleveland Museum
Archival Resource Key
1967
5
36
Connor Contemporary Art
Archival Resource Key
2001
5
37
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Archival Resource Key
1975-1978
5
38
David Mirvish Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1973-1977
5
39
Denver Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1977
5
40
Fort Worth Art Museum
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1973-1987
5
41-43
Galerie Neufville
Archival Resource Key
1961
5
44
Galerie Piltzer
Archival Resource Key
1996-1997
5
45
Greenville County Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1978-1979
5
46
Hayward Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
5
47-52
Hayward Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1974
6
1
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Archival Resource Key
1974-1987
6
2-6
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Photographs
Archival Resource Key
1974-1987
6
7
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Slides
Archival Resource Key
1974-1987
6
8
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, "Morris Louis" Film Screening
Archival Resource Key
2002
6
9
Israel Museum
Archival Resource Key
1979-1991
6
10-16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material located in OV 20.
Jewish Museum
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1996-1997
6
17-18
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
1974-1986
6
19-20
Madrid U.S. Embassy Contemporary Art Collection
Archival Resource Key
1995
6
21
Maryland Institute College of Art, Meyerhoff Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1989
6
22
Musee de Grenoble
Archival Resource Key
1986-1998
6
23-27
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Archival Resource Key
1973-1986
6
28-30
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Archival Resource Key
1984-1986
6
31-34
Scope and Contents
Oversized material located in box 19, folder 3.
National Gallery of Art
Archival Resource Key
1975-1983
6
35-39
Milwaukee Art Museum, National Symposium of Art Museum Docents
Archival Resource Key
1983
6
40
Paul Kasmin Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2001
6
41
Riva Yares Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2001
6
42-43
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Archival Resource Key
1974
7
1-2
Scope and Contents
Oversized material located in OV 20.
Tate Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1979-1986
7
3
Tel Aviv Museum
Archival Resource Key
1972-1988
7
4-6
University of Maryland Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Archival Resource Key
1971-1974
7
7
Waddington Galleries
Archival Resource Key
1968-1980
7
8-9
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Archival Resource Key
1976-1981
7
10-11
Whitney Museum of American Art
Archival Resource Key
1969-circa 1978
7
12
Westfalisches Landesmuseum (Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Munster, Germany)
Archival Resource Key
1996-1997
7
13
Oversized Andre Emmerich Gallery, removed from Box 5, Folder 3
Archival Resource Key
1985
19
1
Oversized Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Morris Louis Gallery, removed from Box 5, Folder 28
Archival Resource Key
1987-1991
19
2
Oversized Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan, removed from Box 6, Folder 33
Archival Resource Key
1986
19
3
Oversized Israel Museum, removed from Box 6, Folder 14
Archival Resource Key
circa 1985
OV 20
Oversized Staditsche Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, removed from Box 7, Folder 2
Archival Resource Key
1974
OV 20
Art Records and Inventories
2.2
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
Arrangement
Inventory cards were maintained according to their original order. The cards sometimes include several numerical references, including original Morris Louis numbers (referred to as ML #), Santini numbers (of the Santini Brothers Warehouse), and "DU" numbers. It is not clear what "DU" stands for. Some cards have a color tab attached, while others have minimal description containing perhaps only a title and date. At the time of the Louis' death, numerous unidentified paintings were stored in rolls, and, thus, a numbering system was assigned posthumously. These numbers are most likely the DU numbers.
Inventory files are arranged in numerical order according to "DU" number, though notations within files may refer to additional filing numbers. Inventory files are connected to inventory notecards, though some files exist where notecards are absent. Some files contain photocopies of relevant inventory notecard, as well.
In both inventory cards and inventory files, systems were used over the course of 30 years, which accounts for varying numbers assigned, descriptions, and notations in multiple handwritings.
One inventory file is dedicated to researching the whereabouts of a missing painting identified as 5-71 "a large veil on a triple-fold stretcher."
Scope and Contents
Art inventory files and cards contain extensive details about Louis' artwork and often include photographs and transparencies, as well as written descriptions. The files contain documentation of the movement of artwork, whether showing in an exhibition, donated to a museum or gallery, or sold through auction or to a private collector. There are also notations about artwork donations made my Marcella Brenner before her death. Additionally, several estate inventories and lists of museums where pieces were located are filed here.
Inventory Notecards
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1960-1992
7
14-25
Inventory Notecards
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1987-1992
8
1-3
Inventory Files, Nos. [1]-[18]
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1960-1992
8
4
Inventory Files, Nos. [19]-[35]
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1960-1992
8
5
Inventory Files, Nos. [36]-[50]
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1960-1992
8
6
Inventory Files, Nos. [51]-[65]
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1960-1992
8
7
Inventory Files, Nos. [66]-[77]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
8
Inventory Files, Nos. [78]-[92]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
9
Inventory Files, Nos. [93]-[1-05]
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1960-1992
8
10
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-06]-[1-16]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
11
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-17]-[1-29]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
12
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-30]-[1-43]
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1960-1992
8
13
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-45]-[1-55]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
14
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-56]-[1-72]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
15
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-73]-[1-89]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
16
Inventory Files, Nos. [1-90]-[2-06]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
8
17
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-07]-[2-22]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
1
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-23]-[2-35]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
2
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-36]-[2-47]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
3
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-48]-[2-58]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
4
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-59]-[2-74]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
5
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-76]-[2-86]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
6
Inventory Files, Nos. [2-87]-[2-99]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
7
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-00]-[3-12]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
8
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-13]-[3-23]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
9
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-24]-[3-36]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
10
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-37]-[3-51]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
11
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-52]-[3-66]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
12
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-67]-[3-81]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
13
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-82]-[3-92]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
14
Inventory Files, Nos. [3-93]-[4-10]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
9
15
Inventory Files, Nos. [4-11]-[4-28]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
1
Inventory Files, Nos. [4-29]-[4-43]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
2
Inventory Files, Nos. [4-44]-[4-56]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
3
Inventory Files, Nos. [4-57]-[4-70]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
4
Inventory Files, Nos. [4-71]-[4-90]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
5
Inventory Files, Nos. [4-92]-[5-06]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
6
Inventory Files, Nos. [5-07]-[5-26]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
7
Inventory Files, Nos. [5-27]-[5-39]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
8
Inventory Files, Nos. [5-40]-[5-69]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
9
Inventory Files, Nos. [5-71] Missing Painting
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
10
Inventory Files, Nos. [5-72]-[5-81]
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
11
Inventory Files, Titles Only, A-Z
Archival Resource Key
1960-1992
10
12
Estate Inventory Lists
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
10
13
International Museums, Inventory List
Archival Resource Key
circa 1986
10
14
National & International Museums, Visual Inventory
Archival Resource Key
circa 1986
10
15
Estate Inventory of Morris Louis Drawings
Archival Resource Key
1988
10
16
Estate Inventory of Morris Louis Drawings
Archival Resource Key
1988
11
1-3
Legal Records
2.3
Archival Resource Key
1962-1989
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.
Correspondence, Answer to 'Show Cause'
Archival Resource Key
1970
11
4
Correspondence, Pre-1954 Paintings, Previously Unknown Works
Archival Resource Key
1964-1986
11
5
Correspondence, I. S. Weissbrodt
Archival Resource Key
1965-1989
11
6-31
Court-Ruled Paintings Inventory & History of Sales, Notes & Lists Summary
Archival Resource Key
1964
11
32
Court-Ruled Paintings Inventory & History of Sales
Archival Resource Key
1962-1968
11
33
Louis Paintings, Locations
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
11
34
Settlement Contract, Bernstein v. Brenner
Archival Resource Key
1970
11
35
Trial Notes, Bernstein v. Brenner
Archival Resource Key
1970
11
36
Financial Records
2.4
Archival Resource Key
1959-1998
Scope and Contents
Financial records consist of extensive sales records for Morris Louis artwork between 1959 and 1989. Also included are bonds, tax records and returns documenting inheritance and estate taxes, a single statement documenting the sale of a Louis painting, and documentation of the P.E.F. Israel Endowment Fund, a fund for innovative teaching set up and sponsored by Marcella Brenner, 1971-2007, via the Morris Louis Estate.
Bonds
Archival Resource Key
1974-1998
11
37
P.E.F. Israel Endowment Fund
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
11
38-40
Sales Records for Louis Paintings
Archival Resource Key
1959-1966
11
41
Sales Records for Louis Paintings
Archival Resource Key
1969-1989
12
1-3
Statement of Morris Louis Painting Sale
Archival Resource Key
1996
12
4
Taxes, D.C. Estate Tax
Archival Resource Key
1962-1964
12
5
Taxes, Estate Tax
Archival Resource Key
1962-1965
12
6
Taxes, Federal & D.C. Estate Tax, Inheritance Tax
Archival Resource Key
1962-1963
12
7
Taxes
Archival Resource Key
1962-1964
12
8-9
Printed Material
2.5
Archival Resource Key
1960-2006
Scope and Contents
Printed material includes brochures and notecards, blank wall and desk calendars containing representative images of Morris Louis paintings, extensive clippings, magazines, sales catalogs, and journals, exhibition catalogs, exhibition notecards and event announcements.
Other publications include gallery and museum reports and miscellaneous publications containing depictions of Morris Louis' paintings and references, and a medical report of the U.S. Department of Health with Louis' Beta-Kappa as the cover image.
Brochures & Notecards
Archival Resource Key
1989-2002
12
10-11
Calendars
Archival Resource Key
1995-2003
12
12
Scope and Contents
Oversize material housed in Box 19, Folder 4.
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1966-1991
12
13-30
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1992-2006
13
1-14
Exhibition Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1965-1988
13
15-34
Exhibition Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1989-2006
14
1-9
Exhibition Events & Announcements
Archival Resource Key
1965-2000
14
10
Notecards Featuring Louis Paintings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1980s
14
11
Other Publications
Archival Resource Key
1968-1997
14
12-19
Oversized Calendars, removed from Box 12, Folder 13
Archival Resource Key
1984-1998
19
4
Oversized Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1971-2007
19
5-10
Writings
2.6
Archival Resource Key
1963-1988
Scope and Contents
Writings include typescripts, essay drafts, and notes about Morris Louis, as well as documentation and manuscript copies of the book, Trustee for the Human Race: Litigation over the Morris Louis Paintings written by Ruth S. Blau, and contracted by Marcella Brenner.
Typescript, Sybil Myersburg "Morris Louis: A Memoir"
Archival Resource Key
1963
14
20
Typescript, Dan Robbins "Morris Louis"
Archival Resource Key
1963
14
21
Notes
Archival Resource Key
1966-1988
14
22
Essay Drafts, Helen Jacobson "As I Remember Morris Louis"
Archival Resource Key
1970
14
23
Typescript, Doris Margaret Thornton "Morris Louis: A Painter, Recollected in Tranquility"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1972
14
24
Typescript, Article by Karin Alexis
Archival Resource Key
1977
14
25
Book Contract/Agreement, Ruth S. Blau for Trustee for the Human Race: Litigation Over the Morris Louis Paintings
Archival Resource Key
1988
14
26
Manuscript, Ruth S. Blau, Trustee for the Human Race: Litigation Over the Morris Louis Paintings
Archival Resource Key
1988
14
27-28
Photographs
2.7
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-2001
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.
Photographs of Marcella Brenner
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-1995
14
29
Photographs of Marcella Brenner at Lenne School Event
Archival Resource Key
2001
14
30
Photographs of Andre Emmerich in Milan
Archival Resource Key
1990 March
14
31
Artwork: Estate Paintings, Slides
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
14
32-33
Artwork: Roy Lichtenstein's Variation of a Louis "Unfurled"
Archival Resource Key
1973
14
34
Artwork: Santini Brothers Warehouse Paintings, Slides
Archival Resource Key
1965
14
35
Artwork: Transparencies
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
36
Exhibition Opening, "Morris Louis Retrospective," Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Archival Resource Key
1967 April
15
1
Exhibition Opening, "Morris Louis," Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Munster, Germany
Archival Resource Key
1986 May
15
2
Exhibition, "Major Themes & Variations," National Gallery of Art (sign only)
Archival Resource Key
1976 September-1977 January
15
3
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Unfurleds"
Archival Resource Key
1964
15
4
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Veils"
Archival Resource Key
1966
15
5
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Paintings of the Spring '62"
Archival Resource Key
1968
15
6
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Veils"
Archival Resource Key
1969
15
7
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Unfurleds"
Archival Resource Key
1970
15
8
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Stripes"
Archival Resource Key
1972
15
9
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1974
15
10
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Nine Major Works"
Archival Resource Key
1978
15
11
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Solid Columns"
Archival Resource Key
1980
15
12
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "A Commemorative Exhibition"
Archival Resource Key
1982
15
13
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Drawings 1948-1953"
Archival Resource Key
1982
15
14
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Drawings"
Archival Resource Key
1985
15
15
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Exhibition in Honor of the Catalogue Raisonne"
Archival Resource Key
1985
15
16
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1989
15
17
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Veils and Variations"
Archival Resource Key
1992
15
18
Gallery Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Variations on a Theme"
Archival Resource Key
1995
15
19
Gallery Installation, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Archival Resource Key
1979
15
20
Gallery Installation, Cleveland Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
1967
15
21
Gallery Installation, Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970
15
22
Gallery Installation, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
15
23
Gallery Installation, Riva Yares Gallery, California
Archival Resource Key
1989
15
24
Gallery Installation, Rome - New York Art Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1960
15
25
Gallery Installation, Seattle Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1967
15
26-27
Gallery Installation, St. Louis Art Museum, "Morris Louis 1912-1962"
Archival Resource Key
1967
15
28
Gallery Installation, Tel Aviv Museum
Archival Resource Key
1981
15
29
Gallery Installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Archival Resource Key
1995
15
30
Gallery Installation, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne
Archival Resource Key
1998
15
31
Project Files
2.8
Archival Resource Key
1966-2007
Scope and Contents
Project files are found for the Morris Louis catalogue raisonne; three film projects by Robert Pierce Productions, including "Morris Louis: Radiant Zones," "Pictures to an Exhibition," and "Morris Louis"; a NET Program, "The New Abstraction: Morris Louis & Kenneth Noland"; a WETA-TV documentary on Morris Louis; a film associated with the "Morris Louis Now" exhibition; and the Anita Faatz interviews of 27 artists talking about Morris Louis.
Catalogue Raisonne Project Files
2.8.1
Archival Resource Key
1966-1986
Scope and Contents
The catalogue raisonne project files contain twenty years of documentation and correspondence relating to the creation of Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings (A Catalogue Raisonne), compiled and written by Diane Upright Headley. Files document interviews, extensive research, and a final exhibition in 1985 at the Andre Emmerich Gallery to honor the completed Morris Louis catalogue raisonne. The publication is not found in the records.
Catalogue Raisonne Project Files
Archival Resource Key
1966-1986
15
32-38
Robert Pierce Productions Film Projects
2.8.2
Archival Resource Key
1975-2001
Scope and Contents
Robert Pierce Productions film projects include documentation and interview transcripts for three film projects: "Morris Louis: Radiant Zones," "Pictures to an Exhibition," and "Morris Louis." No original video or film is found here.
The "Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" was a 25 minute documentary completed in 1986. Although ultimately produced by Robert Pierce Productions, the film project originally began in 1979 in Australia and was funded by the Australian Film Commission. In 1985 it was agreed that the 16mm print would be transferred and non-theatrically exhibited at the Fort Worth Art Museum in the United States, and curated by Diane Upright Headley.
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones," Project Documentation
Archival Resource Key
1979-1985
15
39
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Nick Wilder (Tapes 1-4)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
40
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, James Collins (Tapes 5-7)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
41
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Andre Emmerich (Tapes 8-11)
Archival Resource Key
1979
15
42
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Michael Fried (Tapes 12-16)
Archival Resource Key
1979
15
43
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Rubin Lawrence (Tapes 17-19)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
44
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Diane Upright Headley (Tape 20)
Archival Resource Key
1979
15
45
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Joe Helman (Tapes 21-23)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
46
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, John Elderfield (Tapes 24-29)
Archival Resource Key
1979
15
47
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Leonard Bocour (Tapes 30-33)
Archival Resource Key
1979
15
48
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Leonard Bocour (Tapes 30-33)
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Charles Schucker (Tapes 34-36)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
49
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Andre Emmerich (Tape 39)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
50
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Andre Emmerich & James Lebron (Tapes 40-43)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
51
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Andre Emmerich & James Lebron (Tapes 40-43)
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Gifford & Joann Phillips (Tapes 44-47)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
15
52
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Helen Frankenthaler (Tape 48)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
16
1
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Kenworth Moffet (Tapes 49-51)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
16
2
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Anne Truitt (Tapes 52-56)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980-1987
16
3
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Anne Truitt (Tapes 52-56)
"Morris Louis: Radiant Zones" Project, Interview Transcript, Marcella Brenner (Tapes 57-58)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
16
4
"Pictures to an Exhibition" Project Documentation
Archival Resource Key
1988-1991
16
5
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Marcella Brenner
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
6
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Pat Lipsky
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
7
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Dennis Yares
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
8
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Liz Quisgard
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
9
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Sybil Meyersburg
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
10
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Andre Emmerich
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
11
"Morris Louis" Project, Interview Transcript, Cornelia Noland Reis
Archival Resource Key
2001
16
12
NET Program, "The New Abstraction: Morris Louis & Kenneth Noland"
2.8.3
Archival Resource Key
1966
Interview Transcript, Marcella Brenner
Archival Resource Key
1966
16
13
Interview/Program Transcript, Clement Greenberg, Marcella Brenner, Helen Jacobson, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Noland
Archival Resource Key
1966
16
14
Interview Transcript, Helen Jacobson
Archival Resource Key
1966
16
15
WETA-TV Documentary on Morris Louis
2.8.4
Archival Resource Key
1986
Interview Transcript, Marcella Brenner
Archival Resource Key
1986
16
16
Film project, "Morris Louis Now"
2.8.5
Archival Resource Key
2007
Scope and Contents
Found here are the video cassettes for the never fully realized film "Morris Louis Now." The film was produced and directed by Mark Muheim, Muheim Motion Pictures, for Marcella Brenner in 2007. Footage was captured at the High Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
"Morris Louis Now," Hirshhorn Museum
Archival Resource Key
3 Videocassettes (BetacamSP)
Duplicates of HDCAM
3 Videocassettes (HDCam)
2007
16
17
"Morris Louis Now," High Museum
Archival Resource Key
2 Videocassettes (BetacamSP)
Duplicates of HDCAM
1 Videocassettes (HDCam)
2007
16
21
Anita Faatz Interviews
2.8.6
Archival Resource Key
1970-1976
Scope and Contents
Between 1970-1971 Anita Faatz interviewed 27 artists for a project requested and initiated by Marcella Brenner in 1969. The purpose was to capture recollections and memories of Morris Louis by those who knew him before too much time had passed after his death. The Anita Faatz interview files include project documentation, correspondence, and interviews with 27 individuals on 23 sound cassettes. Most interviews include transcripts.
Of note are interviews with Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Marcella Brenner, Andre Emmerich, Lawrence and William Rubin, and others.
Project Documentation
Archival Resource Key
1971
17
1
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1974-1976
17
2
Sophia Bloom Interview
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
No transcript included.
1971
17
3
Stanley A. Blumberg Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
No transcript included.
1970
17
4
Leonard Bocour and Clement Greenberg Interviews
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
17
5-6
Marcella and Abner Brenner Interviews
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1971
17
7-8
Betty Carter Interview (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
1970
17
9
Scope and Contents
For sound recording, see Betty Schach Interview, Box 18, Folder 4
Andre Emmerich Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
17
10-11
Freda Friedman Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1971
17
12-13
Clement Greenberg Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
17
14-15
Helen Frankenthaler Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
17
18
Helen Frankenthaler Interview
Helen Jacobson Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
17
19-20
Miriam Jaegerman Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
No transcript included.
1970
17
20
Jeanette Kear and Annie Siegel Interviews
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Includes transcript (Jeanette Kear).
1970
17
21-22
Scope and Contents
For Annie Siegel interview transcript, see Box 18, Folder 11
Sybil Meyersburg Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
17
23-24
Cornelia Noland Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1971
17
25-26
Kenneth Noland Interview
Archival Resource Key
1971
17
27
Scope and Contents
Includes transcript notes only.
Liz Whitney Quisgard Interview
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Includes transcript.
1970-1971
17
28-29
Lawrence Rubin and William Rubin Interviews
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcripts.
1971
18
1-3
Betty Schach and Betty Carter Interviews
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript (Betty Schach).
1970
18
4-5
Scope and Contents
For Betty Carter Interview transcript, see Box 17, Folder 9
Charles Schucker Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcript.
1970
18
6-7
Leon Shereshefsky and Pauline Shereshefsky Interviews
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Includes transcripts.
1971
18
8-10
Annie Siegel Interview (transcript)
Archival Resource Key
1970
18
11
Ann Spiegel Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
No transcript included.
1970
18
12
I. S. Weissbrodt Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
No transcript included.
1971
18
13