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Robert Morris

1931 - 2018

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Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. Morris lived and worked in New York. In 2013 as part of the October Files, MIT Press published a volume on Morris, examining his work and influence, edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Morris is the 144th most popular sculptor (down from 113th in 2019), the 4,649th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,018th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Robert Morris ranks 144 out of 258. Before him are Hans Multscher, Bartolomeo Bon, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Clara Westhoff, and Chana Orloff. After him are Anish Kapoor, George Minne, Auguste Clésinger, Anna Coleman Ladd, Tony Cragg, and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont.

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Among people born in 1931, Robert Morris ranks 236. Before him are Jean-Jacques Marcel, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Koichi Sugiyama, Janosch, Ingvar Wixell, and Boris Pankin. After him are Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Elliott Belgrave, Robert Enrico, Sven Tumba, Shunichiro Okano, and Ernst Degner. Among people deceased in 2018, Robert Morris ranks 194. Before him are Evelyn Berezin, Juraj Herz, Lewis Gilbert, Penny Marshall, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, and Trần Đại Quang. After him are Ara Güler, John Mahoney, Donald Moffat, René Houseman, Sridevi, and Philip Kerr.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Morris ranks 4,649 out of 20,380. Before him are Mayim Bialik (1975), Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844), Paul Adelstein (1969), Chris Penn (1965), John Neumeier (1939), and Arnold Rothstein (1882). After him are Andrew M. Gleason (1921), Dennis Haysbert (1954), R-Truth (1972), Joe Spinell (1936), Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810), and Big Mama Thornton (1926).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Robert Morris ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Calder (1898), Isamu Noguchi (1904), Robert Smithson (1938), and Dan Flavin (1933). After him are Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Walter De Maria (1935), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875), Duane Hanson (1925), Jacob Epstein (1880), and Audrey Munson (1891).

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