Abstract painting with flowing blue and green shapes, creating a symmetrical, waterfall-like effect.

Paintings

Tet

1958

Medium: Magna on canvas
Dimensions: Overall: 94 1/8 × 152 1/8 in. (239.1 × 386.4 cm)
Accession number: 65.9
Acquired: 1965
Credit line: Purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Reproduction credit: © Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department: collection

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Morris Louis, Tet, 1958. Magna on canvas, overall: 94 1/8 × 152 1/8 in. (239.1 × 386.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 65.9. © Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Exhibitions in the Whitney's archive featuring any of the artists listed for this work. Artwork-level exhibition history is not published by the museum; the list below is artist-level.

Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s 2019-03-29 – 2019-08-18
Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960 2017-04-28 – 2019-06-02
The Whitney's Collection 2015-09-28 – 2016-04-04
Synthetic 2009-01-22 – 2009-04-19
De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (2nd floor–Oct 2002) 2002-10-10 – 2003-03-02
Morris Louis: Paintings 1970-03-31 – 1970-05-10

Tet

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