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Charred Journal: Firewritten II, 1951, 35 x 30 in. (88.9 x 76.2 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, du31

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Collection:

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. Donation: Marcella Brenner/The American Federation of Arts, 1981

Provenance:

Estate of the artist

Exhibitions:

(E 12): Washington, D.C.: Workshop Art Center Gallery (cat. no. 2), 1953

(E 121): Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Missouri: City Art Museum (cat. no. 4, bw, p. 10), 1967

(E 456): Malmo, Sweden: Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art (color, p. 12), 1992-1993

(E 462): Grenoble, France: Musée de Grenoble; Münster, Germany: Westfälisches Landesmuseum (color, p. 66), 1996

(E 463): New York: The Jewish Museum, 1997

Gran Canaria, Spain: Centro Atlantica de arte Moderno, 20 April - 13 June 1999; Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Artes, Reina Sofia, 6 July - 11 October 1999

Helsinki, Finland: Didrichsen Art Museum Masters of Modernism, 10 September 2003 - 1 February 2004

References:

(B 249): Fried 1970, bw pl. 14

(B 385): Upright [Headley] January–February 1978, bw, p. 84

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 31, color, p.136

Morris Louis: Dipiniti (Milan, Italy: Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, 1990), exh. cat., bw, fig. 5

(B 485): Godfrey 2007, fig. 9, color, p. 27

ML number:

ML 4-40

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