Morris Louis ~ Home/Studio, Washington DC

While visiting Washington DC I made a pilgrimage and recorded cellphone footage of the house & studio where Morris Louis lived for the last 10 years of his life. Here, on the ground floor left side, is where he painted the bulk of his entire oeuvre...the first breakthrough Veils of 1953/54, the Florals, the huge Unfurleds, the Pillars, the late Stripes & Diagonals, everything we know of as a Morris Louis was painted here. At least 600 paintings in a nine year period. I also shot additional still photos of the house and the surrounding neighborhood. Here: www.flickr.com Thanks for looking. Mark Dagley " His studio was tiny - - only fourteen feet by twelve feet two inches. The former dining room on the ground floor of his modest Washington home, it was built out from the house so that three of its walls mainly consisted of tall windows, and it abutted a living room about twice its size in which Louis used to view completed paintings, removing the furniture and carpet in order to do so." John Elderfield Video by Mark Dagley, April 2, 2009 www.markdagley.com

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