Details

Title

Concretion

Artist/Maker

George L. K. Morris (American, 1905–1975)

Date

1936

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

54 x 72 inches

Credit

Purchase in honor of Mrs. Rufus Chambers, President of the Members Guild, 1971–1972

Accession #

72.15

Location

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 301

Born into a well-to-do family and educated at Yale University, George L. K. Morris used his money and privilege for frequent travels to Europe, where—together with his friend Albert E. Gallatin (whose work hangs nearby)—he studied the latest trends in modern art. After returning to New York, he became a staunch proponent of abstraction, both as a gallerist and a painter. In Concretion, he explores the aesthetic possibilities of overlaying geometric forms on a grand scale. The title—a term borrowed from geology that describes a compact mass containing fossilized material—hints at the hidden meanings waiting to be uncovered in abstract paintings.

Image Copyright

© Courtesy Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, Lenox, MA

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