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Equator, 1962, 63 x 63 1/4 in. (160.0 x 160.7 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, Inscribed, back: M Louis 62 Equator, du654

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Rights administered by Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Collection:

Private collection, Washington, D.C., United States

Provenance:

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Exhibitions:

(E 44): New York: André Emmerich Gallery (bw), 1962

(E 131): Washington, D.C.: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (cat. no. 2), April 1967

(E 319): Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art (cat. no. 16, color), 1976–77

(E 435): New York: Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Museum; Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (color, p. 175), 1986-1987

References:

(B 58): Fried 1962, p. 53

(B 61): Judd 1962, bw, p. 43

(B 177): Fried February 1967, comm., p. 40

(B 179): Gold 1967, bw, p. 4D

(B 202): Coplans 1968, bw, p. 78

(B 249): Fried 1970, color pl. 175

(B 357): Carmean 1976, comm., pp. 69–75

(B 359): Carmean, Jr., E. A, “Morris Louis and the Modern Tradition.” Arts Magazine 51 (December 1976), pp. 116–19.

(B 364): Upright [Headley] 1976, comm., pp. 69–75

(B 362): Forgey 1976, comm., pp. 103–4

(B 369): Richard 1976, bw, p. G3

(B 376): Millard 1977, comm., p. 257

(B 412): Upright 1985, color pl., p. 131, cat. no. 654, color, p.191

(B 457): Dufrene 1996, bw, p. 64

ML number:

ML 4-84

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