Morris Louis was a central figure of the Washington Color School, a group of abstract painters that emerged in Washington, DC, in the late 1950s. 🎨 Inspired by the techniques of Helen Frankenthaler, Louis created paintings by pouring diluted paint over unprimed canvases. Fun fact! Louis was married to Marcella Brenner, a forward thinker about museums as places of learning and the founder of the Museum Education Program at The George Washington University, where a number of our educators studied