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1931 Kansas City, Missouri - 2018 Kingston, New York. Known for: Earthworks, installation, minimalism.
"Robert Morris, Founding Minimalist Sculptor With Manifold Passions, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, By Ken Johnson, Nov. 29, 2018. Robert Morris, one of the most controversial American... Read full biography
"Robert Morris, Founding Minimalist Sculptor With Manifold Passions, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, By Ken Johnson, Nov. 29, 2018. Robert Morris, one of the most controversial American sculptors of the post-World War II era as a founder of Minimalism, a style of radical simplification... Read full biography
"Robert Morris, Founding Minimalist Sculptor With Manifold Passions, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, By Ken Johnson, Nov. 29, 2018. Robert Morris, one of the most controversial American sculptors of the post-World War II era as a founder of Minimalism, a style of radical simplification that emerged in the 1960s and influences artists to this day, died on Wednesday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 87. His wife, Lucile Michels Morris, said the cause was pneumonia. Mr. Morris was one of a... Read full biography
"Robert Morris, Founding Minimalist Sculptor With Manifold Passions, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, By Ken Johnson, Nov. 29, 2018. Robert Morris, one of the most controversial American sculptors of the post-World War II era as a founder of Minimalism, a style of radical simplification that emerged in the 1960s and influences artists to this day, died on Wednesday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 87. His wife, Lucile Michels Morris, said the cause was pneumonia. Mr. Morris was one of a generation of artists who embraced the Minimalist credo, along with Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and others. But while his peers continued to work within the genre’s austere limits, Mr. Morris went on to explore an astonishing variety of stylistic... Read full biography
"Robert Morris, Founding Minimalist Sculptor With Manifold Passions, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, By Ken Johnson, Nov. 29, 2018. Robert Morris, one of the most controversial American sculptors of the post-World War II era as a founder of Minimalism, a style of radical simplification that emerged in the 1960s and influences artists to this day, died on Wednesday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 87. His wife, Lucile Michels Morris, said the cause was pneumonia. Mr. Morris was one of a generation of artists who embraced the Minimalist credo, along with Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and others. But while his peers continued to work within the genre’s austere limits, Mr. Morris went on to explore an astonishing variety of stylistic approaches, from scatter art, performance and earthworks to paintings and sculptures symbolizing nuclear holocaust. H... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Chalk
- •Colored Pencil
- •Earthworks
- •Fiber Art Design: Fabric, Crochet, Quilting, Knitting, Weaving
- •Ink
- •Iron, Cast Iron
- •Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Plastics
- •Plexiglas
- •Video Art, Documentary Photo, Cinema, Filmmaking
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Earthworks, Earth Art, Land Art
- •Op Art, Optical
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
- •Post-Minimalist
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nature, Environment, Botanicals, Conservation
Art School
- •California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Student
- •Kansas City Art Institute, Student
- •San Francisco Art Institute, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Detroit Institute of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art