George L. K. Morris American, 1905-1975
Composition, 1949
Watercolor, gouache, pencil and collage on paper
11½ x 9 inches
29.2 x 22.9 cm
29.2 x 22.9 cm
Signed at lower right: Morris; dated at lower left: 1949
“Good abstract paintings present a comparable unity. They present fragments of our disordered world—not things reproducing in the world but objects with an independent existence—where every disturbing element has been...
“Good abstract paintings present a comparable unity. They present fragments of our disordered world—not things reproducing in the world but objects with an independent existence—where every disturbing element has been controlled and measured.”
-George L. K. Morris, 1943Provenance
Irma Rudin;Anne Adler Kahn;
Private collection, Katonah, New York, until 2018;
By bequest to the present owner, 2018 until the present