RICHARD ALLEN MORRIS (born 1933)

An "artist's artist" whose work has been a major source of inspiration for West Coast painters, Morris was recently the subject of a retrospective at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Untitled, from "Black Folio"

Woodcut on antique white-wove paper, 11-1/2 x 19-7/8", pencil signed, 1961. Framed.

Black Folio, printed by Irwin Hollander in the Spring of 1961, consisted of seven woodcuts by prominent San Diego area artists working at the La Jolla Art Center. An important collective statement from San Diego art's vanguard, the collection contained work by Don Dudley, Fred Holle, Sheldon Kirby, Malcolm McClain, Richard Allen Morris and Guy Williams, as well as the prominent New Mexico artist William Lumpkins who was working as an architect in La Jolla. Publisher Irwin Hollander was a Tamarind trained printer who printed the majority of the important Abstract Expressionist prints of the 1960s, including works by de Kooning, Francis, Guston and Motherwell.

Untitled (figurative)

Mixed media/collage, 5 x 7", signed and dated 1964. Framed.

Ref: Richard Allen Morris Retrospective 1958-2004

Untitled (abstraction)

Mixed media, 8-1/2 x 11", signed and dated 1964. Framed.

Ref: Richard Allen Morris Retrospective 1958-2004