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Possessing perhaps the best and most extensive formal education of all the New York School painters, Robert Motherwell was well versed in literature, philosophy and the European modernist traditions. His paintings, prints and collages feature simple shapes, bold color contrasts and a dynamic balance between restrained and boldly gestural ...
Painter, printer, collage maker and author. A leading Abstract Expressionist, in 1949 he began his most famous series, Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which is comprised of more than 100 oil paintings and numerous sketches and drawings. He was editor of the important book series Documents of Modern Art.
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Biography. Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Trained in philosophy, Motherwell then ...
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, Aberdeen, Washington 1915–1991 Provincetown, Massachusetts) Date: 1961. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 69 x 114 in. (175.3 x 289.6 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, 1965. Accession Number: 65.247. Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) helped forge a new vision of painting that established Abstract Expressionism at the vanguard of post-war painting and transformed New York into the epicenter of the art world in the second half of the twentieth-century.
Artists. Robert Motherwell. 1915–1991. Wikipedia entry. Getty record. Filters. Has image On view. Randomize. Reset. 19 works. El Negro. 1981–1983. (Untitled) #10. 1976. Elegy Drawing #13. 1976. Untitled. 1975. Untitled. 1973. Tallith for Meyer Schapiro. 1973. The Celtic Stone. 1971. Gauloises Bleues. 1968. Open 26. 1968. Open 101: Big Orange.
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