Pi
Artist
Morris Louis
American, 1912–1962
Date1960
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions103 x 175 in. (261.6 x 444.5 cm)
Frame: 104 x 176 x 2 1/8 in. (264.2 x 447 x 5.4 cm)
Frame: 104 x 176 x 2 1/8 in. (264.2 x 447 x 5.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object number82.15
On View
Not on viewBarbara Plumb, "The Elite Meet." New York Times Magazine (December 21,1969), 44-45, illus. (b-w) 45.
Michael Fried, Morris Louis (New York: Abrams, 1970), discussed 34, illus. (color) pl. 107.
"Space-and-light: The New York apartment of Fred Mueller," Vogue 157 (February 1, 1971), 174-175, illus. (color, as part of interior decor) 175.
Jean Christoph, "Wohnen mit Kunst," Architektur & Wohnen [ ] (January 1976), 86-95, illus. (color) 94-95.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 31.
Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings (New York: Abrams, 1985), no. 355, illus. (color) p. 107.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 275.
John W. Coffey and Virginia Burden, entry for Pi, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 230, illus. (color).
Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays by Robert Rosenblum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999), illus. (b-w) 134.
John W. Coffey, entry for Pi, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 488, illus. (color) 489.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Morris Louis, 1912-1962," February 15-March 26, 1967; Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, April 13-May 24, 1967; St. Louis, MO, City Art Museum of St. Louis, illus. (b-w) 60 (as collection of André Emmerich Gallery).
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