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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: George L. K. Morris, Down South, 1948

George L. K. Morris American, 1905-1975

Down South, 1948
Watercolor, gouache, pencil and collage on paper
11 x 9 inches
27.9 x 22.9 cm
Signed at lower right: Morris
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George L. K. Morris was interested in the cross-over potential of music, an enthusiasm he shared with his frequent co-conspirator, Albert E. Gallatin. While both deployed collaged elements in their...
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George L. K. Morris was interested in the cross-over potential of music, an enthusiasm he shared with his frequent co-conspirator, Albert E. Gallatin. While both deployed collaged elements in their work, Morris particularly enjoyed sheet music because it was an abstract representation of an abstract art-form. Morris's wife, Suzy Frelinghuysen, was a vanguard painter as well as an acclaimed opera singer, and music was an important part of their married lives and artistic careers. The title of the present work is taken from the sheet of music at the center of the composition. Other abstracted elements include a piano bench, piano keys and the curving tail on a treble clef symbol.

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Provenance

[The Downtown Gallery, New York]; to
Charles Wimpfheimer, New York, 1950; to
[Sale: Christie's, New York, March 16, 1990, lot 370]; to
Private collection, Katonah, New York, until 2018;
By bequest to present owner, 2018 until the present

Exhibitions

Menconi + Schoelkopf, New York, The Park Avenue Cubists, April 26-June 4, 2021, no. 6, illus.

Literature

Sales Slips, 1950; Stock Books, C-R, 1941-1960s, Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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