1. American Artists

2. Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)
Jasper Johns
(1930-)
Georgia O’Keeffe
( )
Grandma Moses ( )
Norman Rockwell ( )
Winslow Homer ( )
Robert Indiana (1928-)
Charles Burchfield ( )
Kiowa Five ( )
Mary Cassatt
( )
Alma Thomas
( )
Larry Yanez (1949-)

3. Kiowa Five Winslow Homer Alma Thomas Mary Cassatt Grandma Moses
Georgia O’Keeffe
Kiowa Five
Jasper Johns
Charles Burchfield
Robert Indiana
Larry Yáñez
Norman Rockwell

4. Both are signed by a Morris.
How are these works connected?
Both are signed by a Morris.

5. George L. K. Morris ( )
Descended from General Lewis Morris who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Studied art and literature at Yale University.

6. Married artist and opera singer Suzy Freylinghuysen.
Had homes in New York City and in Paris.
Was an art critic as well as an artist.

7. Met Picasso and became interested in “cubism” and abstract painting.
Became a leader in the cause to promote abstract, modern art.
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8. He and his wife helped to design their home.
They sold a Picasso painting to help finance the building.
The house was considered the first “Modern” home in New England.
It contains works by both of them.

9. His home had an art studio and one room actually had a leather floor.

10. This is a stairwell in their home.
The work on the wall behind them is his artwork.

11. His Style
Abstract
Airplane Factory

12. Painted and sculpted
Ascending Space

13. Geometric
Labyrinth

14. Careful forms

15. Included aspects of American culture--such as native American influences.
Indian Composition
Indian Composition #9

16. Linear
Soccer Ball

17. IRT 1954

18. Partisan Review, September-October 1941
“The oddest forms in nature may sometimes be the seed for abstract pictures. The markings may be made by a leak on the ceiling, a cloud, a piece of some mechanism, a newspaper advertisement, almost anything can suggest a shape for a painting.”
~George L. K. Morris
Partisan Review, September-October 1941

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