# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris-louis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:15:37.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris-louis"
name: "Morris Louis"
slug: "morris-louis"
description: "Morris Louis Bernstein, known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed a loose cohort of artists that is known today as the Washington Color School."
tagline: "American painter (1912–1962)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Photo_of_Morris_Louis.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1912-11-28"
deathDate: "1962-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.98769333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://morrislouis.org/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morris Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morris Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מוריס לואיס"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump