Art, literature & history
Delta Lambda
1961
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 260.4 x 449.6 cm (102 1/2 x 177 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1992.365
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Morris Louis Fair Use (WikiArt source label)License details
Morris Louis. Delta Lambda. WikiArt source label: Morris Louis Fair Use. Proportional resize and JPEG compression; no crop. Source: https://www.wikiart.org/en/morris-louis/delta-lambda-1961
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Delta Lambda — Morris Louis. 1961.
Medium: acrylic on canvas. Dimensions: Unframed: 260.4 x 449.6 cm (102 1/2 x 177 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
In this painting, asymmetrical streams of vibrant, painted lines border a vast plain of raw canvas. An artist finely attuned to color, Morris Louis drew his palette from intimate studies of the Post-Impressionists. Created at a time when much attention was given to the meaning and function of painting as a medium, the artist's relegation of painted lines to the edges of the canvas, and central focus on untouched canvas, was a bold statement in contemporary art.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.