FROST FINE ART

ROBERT CLARKE MORRIS

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born 1931, New York City
died 2019, Guilford, CT


Studied
Yale University, B.F.A., 1955
University of Texas, M.F.A., 1970


Selected Exhibitions
1966-68 Landau-Alan Gallery
1969, 1972 David Gallery, Houston (one-man)
1976 Washburn Gallery, New York (one-man)
1979 Washburn Gallery (one-man)
1992 Alexander Gallery, New York (one-man)
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1975 Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport (one-man)
1977 "Artists' Postcards", The Drawing Center (with Lee Krasner, Mary Frank, Robert Motherwell, Saul Steinberg, John Cage etc.)
Artspace, New Haven
Wesleyan University Center of the Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Small Paintings, Purdue University Art Gallery, IN
Delgado Museum [New Orleans Museum of Art]


Selected Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston
Oklahoma Arts Center
Allentown Art Museum
Trinity College, Hartford, CT




Robert Clarke Morris was born in 1931 in New York City. He studied at Yale University with Josef Albers and Bernard Chaet, and received his B.F.A. in 1955. After military service at Fort Hood, Texas, he began teaching at the University of Houston in 1957, and then became the exhibit designer at the city's Museum of Fine Arts. In 1959 he became director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, organizing the exhibition "Out of the Ordinary", which introduced Texas to many contemporary artists of the broader art world. He developed friendships at this time with other artists and writers, such as Donald Barthelme and Ray Johnson, which continued through his life.

In 1960 he returned to the east coast, becoming associate Professor of Art at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and later taught at Wesleyan University and, in the 1990s, at Trinity College. His style of painting evolved over this time to the combination of wry observation and imaginative flights of fancy that are shown in the works in these pages. Robert Clarke Morris died in 2019.

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