ABSTRACT
George Lovett Kingsland Morris was born in New York City and spent much of his life shuttling between Manhattan, the Berkshires, and Paris. A descendant of General Lewis Morris, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Morris studied literature and art at Yale University from 1924 to 1928. In 1935, Morris married Estelle "Suzy" Frelinghuysen, who later became an accomplished abstract painter as well as an acclaimed opera singer. The couple developed a lifelong connection to the Berkshire region, where they built a modernist house in Lenox, Massachusetts. Morris's career during the 1930s and 1940s is marked by his work as both an artist and critic. In addition to painting, Morris pursued critical projects, writing catalogue entries for A. E. Gallatin's Museum of Living Art and the Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art. Political and social readings of culture and art are absent from Morris's criticism.
