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Number IV, 1957, 76 1/2 x 93 7/8 in. (194.3 x 238.4 cm), Oil and textile paint on sized canvas, Inscribed, l.l.: Morris Louis 57, du79

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Collection:

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, United States. Gift of Edward J. Gallagher, Jr., 1958

Provenance:

The artist

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Edward Joseph Gallagher, Jr.

Exhibitions:

(E 20): Baltimore Museum of Art, 1957

(E 22): New York: Martha Jackson Gallery (cat. no. 9, labeled April 1957, bw, cover, detail), 1957

(E 42): Little Rock: Arkansas Art Center; Springfield, Missouri: Springfield Art Museum; Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center; Lawrence: Kansas Art Gallery, 1962–63

Salt Lake City, Utah: Museum of Fine Arts, 1966–67

References:

The Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection, (1958), bw, p. 33 (listed under “Lewis”)

(B 177): Fried 1967, comm., p. 27

(B 385): Upright [Headley] January–February 1978, color, p. 87 (labeled Untitled, 1956)

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 79, color, p.140.

(B 480): Kertess 2006, fig. 3, color, p. 12.

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