Morris Louis Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Morris Louis available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Earth
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Morris Louis at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Morris Louis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works online when last checked
Morris Louis at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Morris Louis
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Louis
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Feh
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Para III, 1959
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Beth Rash, 1958-59
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Beth Beth (veil), 1958 (click the "2" to see)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Pi, 1960
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Distance of Time, 1952
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Morris Louis at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Charred Journal: Firewritten V, 1951
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Pillars of Hercules, 1960
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Impending
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Repository of Abstract Art
Terry Fenton: Landscape Painter and Writer on Art
Terranean, 1959
No. 3
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Morris Louis 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Theta Gamma, 1960
Artnet Magazine
Saf Gimel, 1959
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 9): Morris Louis
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Art Story
Time Magazine
"A Look at a Beautiful Impasse", 1986 article by Robert Hughes
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