24-1/4 x 20-1/4 in. (canvas) 30-1/2 x 20-1/4 in. (framed)
Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Pratt Fund
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
The artist; (Hirschl and Adler Galleries in New York); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1978 (78.1).
Concretion is a fully abstract work based upon the relationship of colored forms in an undefined space. Unified by an earth-tones palette and similar shapes, lively biomorphic forms are arranged to maintain a rhythmic and harmonic balance.
For Morris, abstract painting could express ideas in a universal language that was independent from the limitations of subject matter or representational images.
Morris associated with avant-garde Parisian artists like Picasso during the 1930s before becoming one of Modernism's earliest and most articulate spokesmen in America.
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