Representative work by Robert Motherwell
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Artist

Robert Motherwell

1915–1991 · American

  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
  • Columbia University

Robert Motherwell combined painting with extensive writing and editing, helping articulate Abstract Expressionism intellectually. His long Elegies to the Spanish Republic series uses recurring black ovals and bars as a flexible memorial structure.

Painting; collage; printmaking; writing

Major Works

  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 34
  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70
  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110
  • The Little Spanish Prison
  • Je t’aime No. 2
  • Open No. 24 in Variations
  • Open No. 122
  • Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive
  • The Voyage
  • Beside the Sea No. 3

Interviews & Writing

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