Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"A new growth to watch is the abstract expression which derives rather heavily from nature." In so saying, Painter Carl Morris, 44, speaks with personal knowledge. His own nature-influenced abstractions rate one-man shows up and down the West Coast, and hang in nine U.S. museums. San Francisco Art...
Gallery last week, the evidence was clear that Painter Morris has pushed his technique to a new combination of recognizable objects and abstract design.
Morris is the first to admit that much of his inspiration comes from Pacific Coast landscape. To find it, he need go no farther than the front door of his cliffside house, where he lives with his wife, Sculptress Hilda Morris, and ten-year-old son David. "Frequently fog makes...
The big element Morris has learned from nature is the importance of space. Says he: "In the Northwest, you see either close up or far away." In From the Waterfront (see cut), done in soft shades of grey with only small punctuations of color, the painting close up has the...
Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, Thursday night received the 1955 Research Corporation award for contribution to science. His work in synthesizing cortisone and other drugs won for him an honorarium of $2500, a plaque, and a citation.