Overhang

Date1960

Maker Morris Louis American, 1912-1962

Object number2020.15.19

ProvenanceThe artist; [Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1967

Photo CreditPhoto: Jueqian Fang

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), Morris Louis: Veils and Unfurleds, July 12 - Aug. 23, 1967. Cat. no. 3, reproduced. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: Artists of the Sixties, May 23 - June 29, 1969. Cat. no. 11. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), American Art, Third Quarter Century, Aug. 22 - Oct. 14, 1973. Cat. no. 37, p. 68, reproduced. Pullman, Washington, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Contemporary American Abstract Painting 1960-1974: From the Bagley and Virginia Wright Collection, Nov. 1 - 22, 1974. Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960 (Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, Feb. 1 - Mar. 16, 1975). Cat. no. 4. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, Oct. 23, 2020 - Jan. 18, 2021.Published Referencesvan der Marck, Jan, "American Art: Third Quarter Century", Seattle Art Museum, 1973, cat. no. 37, illus. p. 68 Fried, Michael. Morris Louis. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 Upright, Diane. Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings. A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985, p. 215, no. 283, illus. p. 158 Maytham, Thomas N. et al. “The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960.” Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1975, Introduction, cat. nos. 4-5 (pages unnumbered).

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Dimensions100 x 138 in. (254 x 350.5 cm)

MediumAcrylic resin paint on unprimed canvas