# @sfmoma on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPt0Ombifh-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35630489-sfmoma-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-12T16:29:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SFMOMA (@sfmoma) — https://gondola.cc/sfmoma

## Caption

🎨 Imagine pouring paint across raw canvas until it nearly overtakes your studio. That’s how Morris Louis created “Untitled” (1959–60).

Part of his “Floral” series, the painting showcases wide bands of color converging toward the center, paired with delicate streams of pigment that drift toward the canvas’s edge. To achieve this, Louis thinned Magna paint with acrylic resin and turpentine, then poured it onto an unprimed, loosely secured canvas—a physically demanding process given the painting’s scale, which nearly filled his modest twelve-by-fourteen-foot studio. 

While inspired by Jackson Pollock’s drips and Helen Frankenthaler’s color washes, Louis forged a style unmistakably his own, evident in the vibrant, saturated fields of color that define this work.

📍 Floor 4
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Morris Louis, “Untitled,” 1959-1960, The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Estate of Morris Louis #MorrisLouis #SFMOMA

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SFMOMA | @sfmoma | https://gondola.cc/sfmoma | Non-Profit Organization |
| Dyemond | @DyemondDye | https://gondola.cc/DyemondDye | Editor |

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