About the Artist
From an early age Robert Clarke Morris exhibited a profound talent for the arts. Born in New York City April 2, 1931, he took advantage of all the art the City had to offer. He received his BFA degree in 1955 from Yale University where he studied with Josef Albers and Bernard Chaet and acquired an affinity for architecture from faculty luminaries such as Louis Kahn and King-lui Wu. He earned his MFA degree from The University of Texas..
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Richard Wagner, Architect
“I’m blown away by these architectural drawings! They are a whole new visual vocabulary – with all sorts of wild and wonderful form connections in time, space, water, technology, geometry, history, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and Eiffel. There is so much to discover and digest in the drawings that it’s hard to stop looking. They are urban fantasy kaleidoscopes in hard edged black ink. Powerful stuff.” -- Richard Wagner, Architect
Roger Angell, Writer
“Critics have commented about the images and ideas of photography that are so evident in Robert Morris’s paintings, and I hope it won’t startle him if I suggest that he is also a writer’s artist. It seems to me that his obsessions, his crowded and conflicting images and jokes and snapshots and juxtapositions, his illogical but precise blur of history and celebrity, machinery and nutriment, war and pets, anxiety and unobservance, represent the same concerns that preoccupy many contemporary novelists and short-story writers, who are doing their best (as we are all doing our best) with the daily clutter that assaults and exhausts our attention, with our fragmented imagination, and with our piercing ungovernable memories.” -- Roger Angell, Writer
Donald Barthelme, Writer
“Morris’s work is a brilliant triple reverse – photograph, anti-photograph, painting – giving us finally, in Peter Handke’s phrase, “the innerworld of the outerworld of the innerworld.” -- Donald Barthelme, Writer