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Morris Louis: A Painter Of a Different Stripe

ATLANTA Lo how the mighty have fallen. In September 1962, Morris Louis, the great Washington abstractionist, died of lung cancer. He was 49 years old, with barely five years' worth of major work behind him. But by 1966, kingmaker-critics had anointed him the greatest painter since Jackson Pollock.
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