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Robert Motherwell
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Fan account for Robert Motherwell (1915 – 1991) who was a prominent American abstract expressionist painter.
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Beside the Sea No. 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/beside-the-sea-no-1-1962
Beside the Sea No. 1
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Africa 4 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-4-1970
Africa 4
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/pancho-villa-dead-and-alive-1943
Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Untitled from The Madrid Suite http://www.moma.org/collection/works/75206
Gift of the artist
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Untitled A http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-untitled-a-p04630
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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London Series I: Untitled (Black) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/67740/
Abstract expressionist painter and printmaker Robert Motherwell is internationally recognized for his important contributions to avant-garde art and thought. His numerous essays on the abstract expressionists are considered central to understanding the conceptual framework of this art movement. Motherwell saw elimination of the inessential as a way to reveal what he saw as the necessary. His work possesses both compelling visual elegance and personally expressive emotional depth, characteristics apparent in this screenprint.
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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St. Marks http://www.moma.org/collection/works/69725
Gift of James Wilder Green
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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La Guerra II http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-la-guerra-ii-p12197
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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No. 3 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-no-3-p04627
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Beside the Sea No. 45 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/beside-the-sea-no-45-1967
Beside the Sea No. 45
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Roth-Händle https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59977/
Roth-Händle
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Open Study #8 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/96764
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Mezzotint in Indigo http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66301
Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Dutch Linen V from the Dutch Linen Suite http://www.moma.org/collection/works/68100
John B. Turner Fund
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Poet (1) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-poet-1-p01797
date inscribed Presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1976
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Beside the Sea No. 24 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/beside-the-sea-no-24-1962
Beside the Sea No. 24
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Spanish Elegy II https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/51151/
Spanish Elegy II
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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The Little Spanish Prison http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79500
Gift of Renate Ponsold Motherwell
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Africa 5 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-africa-5-p04617
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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London Series I: Untitled (Green) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/67737/
Abstract expressionist painter and printmaker Robert Motherwell is internationally recognized for his important contributions to avant-garde art and thought. His numerous essays on the abstract expressionists are considered central to understanding the conceptual framework of this art movement. Motherwell saw elimination of the inessential as a way to reveal what he saw as the necessary. His work possesses both compelling visual elegance and personally expressive emotional depth, characteristics apparent in this screenprint.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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No. 12 (From The Basque Suite) https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/no-12-from-the-basque-suite-1970
No. 12 (From The Basque Suite)
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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No. 13 (From The Basque Suite) https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/no-13-from-the-basque-suite-1970
No. 13 (From The Basque Suite)
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Iberia No. 2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/iberia-no-2-1958
Iberia No. 2
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Africa 10 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-10-1970
Africa 10
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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To the Paintbrush, from A la pintura https://www.artic.edu/artworks/122162/
According to John McKendry, former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, if nothing else survived of Robert Motherwell’s oeuvre save his A la Pintura, he “would still be seen as a major artist of the twentieth century.” Motherwell’s book of 24 unbound pages, with 21 mixed intaglio prints, “illuminates the poetry” of Raphael Alberti. After Robert Motherwell discovered Ben Belitt’s translation of Raphael Alberti’s A la Pintura (On Painting), Motherwell recalled, “I had found the text for a livre d’artiste, a text whose every line set into motion my innermost painterly feelings. . . . This poetry is made for painters, and this livre was made for the poetry. I meant the two to be wedded, as in a medieval psalter, but with my own sense of the modern.” Just as Motherwell was inspired by poetry, Alberti found constant source material in the visual arts. A la Pintura was his homage to the collection of master paintings in the Prado Museum in Madrid and was dedicated to his friend and fellow Spaniard Pablo Picasso. U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; restricted gift of supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM