Morris Nathanson
1927 — 2022 · RHODE ISLAND

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Artist, designer, and educator. Morris's work in painting, assemblage, pen and ink, and prints chronicles six decades of American life. 
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A bar scene by Morris Nathanson — ghostly white figures gathered at a counter against a wall of bottles, painted in ink and white over a warm sepia ground

WORKS

ONE FEATURED SERIES · FIVE COLLECTIONS
Japonica — a wood assemblage cityscape by Morris Nathanson
★ Featured series

The Assemblages

Built from the bones of the mill town.

Salvaged wood from Rhode Island's abandoned factories, reassembled in dense cityscapes and mythic reimagings. 

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01

The Mill Town

The world he came from.

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The Gathering

People in public places.

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Caribe

Light, color, and the islands.

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The Old Stories

Scripture, myth, and literature.

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The Search

Inheritance and reckoning.

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