Thomas Krens , The Drawings of Robert Morris ( Williamstown , MA : Williams College Museum of Art , 1982 ) . The show then traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark 1nstitute , Williamstown , MA ; 1nstitute of Contemporary Art ...
Author: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438431201
Category: Art
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Drawings by one of the twentieth century’s most intellectually challenging artists.His son-in-law, James M. Marshall, husband of Esther, just mentioned, was his creditor for more than £20,000 sterling, advanced to Robert Morris, Jr., in London, to take up Morris's bills. Morris tried to secure him by an assignment of ...
Author: William Graham Sumner
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 9781596050839
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 340
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Robert Morris' tombstone states that he was "The Financier"; officially, however, he was Superintendent of Finance. Whatever his title, Robert Morris played an integral role in financing the American Revolution, and Yale Professor William G. Sumner examines Morris' life and actions to enhance our understanding of the finances of the young nation.In Volume II of a two-volume work, Sumner begins with the events of 1781, when Morris anticipated receiving loans from Spain. From there, Sumner looks at Morris' attempts to secure loans from other nations, his unpopularity and resignation, and the organization of the treasury. Sumner also covers the Bank War of 1785-1786, the Commercial Convention and the Constitutional Convention, Morris' career in the U.S. Senate, and his social standing and business dealings. What should be noted is that while Morris helped to finance the Revolution, he spent three years in prison for personal debts. WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER was a professor of political and social science at Yale University and became known as a Social Darwinist and advocate of the laissez faire principle in economics. Besides writing a number of books on sociology, history, and economics, he was also influential in the movement to modernize the American university system.The Morris-Croxall Family of New Jersey,” New Jersey History 113 (Fall/ Winter 1995): 3–21. For an example ofMary Morris's correspondence with Polly, see Mary Morris to Robert Morris, December 12, 1787, Collection of Papers of Robert ...
Author: Ryan K. Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300196047
Category: Biography & Autobiography
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In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris’s wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as “Morris’s Folly.” Setting Morris’s tale in the context of the nation’s founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America’s ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.LIFE OF ROBERT MORRIS . 7 By the representations of a committee of congress , Mr. Morris was induced to abandon his intention of quitting office in 1783 , and he accordingly continued to superintend the department of finance to the 30th ...
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ISBN: HARVARD:32044081971830
Category: Capitalists and financiers
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For the confidence which actions of Morris infused into many department heads , see Pickering to Hughes , 17 July 1781 ... The Accounts of Robert Morris , Superintendent of Finance " in The Bankers ' Magazine and Statistical Register ...
Author: Clarence L. Ver Steeg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9781512819120
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 288
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Robert Morris's attempt to turn the tables on Cage must be counted as not entirely successful , for he did not take account of the changes to Cage's aesthetic in the 1960s . Despite Cage's conviction that composition , performance , and ...
Author: Julia Bryan-Wilson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262519618
Category: Art
Page: 224
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Essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussion on the work of one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period. This October Files volume gathers essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussion on the work of Robert Morris, one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period. It includes a little-known text on dance by Morris himself and a never-before-anthologized but influential catalog essay by Annette Michelson. Often associated with minimalism, Morris (b. 1931) also created important works that involved dance, process art, and conceptualism. The texts in this volume focus on Morris's early work and include an examination of a 1971 Tate retrospective by Jon Bird, an interview with the artist by Benjamin Buchloh, a conversation from a 1994 issue of October about resistance to 1960s art, and an essay by this volume's editor, Julia Bryan-Wilson, on the labor involved in installing the massive works in Morris's 1970 solo exhibition at the Whitney. Spanning 1965 to 2009, these writings map the evolution of critical thought on Morris over more than four decades.Robert Morris Elmer James Ferguson, John Catanzariti. I have the honour to be your Excellencys Most Obedient humble Servant Robt Morris His Excelly . The President of Congress Addressed : His Excellency / Samuel Huntington Esqr ...
Author: Robert Morris
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822970171
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 504
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Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on Nomination of Robert H. Morris to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, November 14, ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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ISBN: UCAL:B5138393
Category: United States
Page: 15
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Volume 9: Robert Morris Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. those instances when he was convinced free trade would not be permitted . In addition to his contracting to sell tobacco to the French Farmers General discussed below , such efforts included ...
Author: Robert Morris
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 082297049X
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Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.Robert Morris, John Catanzariti Elmer James Ferguson. ENDORSED.' The Honble Rob. Morris/16th Octr. 82 ' Mss: LS, part in cipher, Washington Papers, DLC; Ofcl LbC, part in cipher, DLC; Dft in the writing of Gouverneur Morris, ...
Author: Robert Morris
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822970224
Category: History
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Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.