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Robert Motherwell

(American, 1915–1991)

Robert Motherwell

Pierrot’s Hat, 1943

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Robert Motherwell

Country Life, 1967

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Robert Motherwell

Open No. 57: Green and Black, 1969

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Robert Motherwell

Open #94, 1969

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Biography

Timeline

1915: Born in Aberdeen, WA
1937 - 1938: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1937: BA, philosophy, Stanford University, Standford, ca
1940: Columbia University; encouraged by Meyer Schapiro to study art and art history
1941: Traveled to Mexico with the surrealist painter Matta; decided to make painting his primary vocation
1950 - 1959: Taught painting at Hunter College in New York and in addition to directing the influential Documents of Modern Art series, he edited The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (1951)
1960 - 1979: Exhibited widely in both America and Europe
1965: Was given a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art; this show subsequently traveled to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Essen, and Turin
1967: Began to work on his Open series
1970: Moved to Greenwich, CT
1977: Was given a major mural commission for the new wing of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983: A major retrospective exhibition of Motherwell’s work was mounted at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; this exhibition was subsequently shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and New York
1991: Died in Provincetown, MA

Exhibitions

2017: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Robert Motherwell: The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell: Masterprints, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Abstract Expressionism, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
2016: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Robert Motherwell: The Art of the Collage, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
A Process of Emphasis: Prints of Robert Motherwell, Works on Paper, 1971-1988, Dedalus Foundation, New London, CT (solo exhibition)
Making Modern: Hofmann and the Next Generation,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Leap Before you Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2015 - 2016: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Motherwell at 100, Dedalus Foundation, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Between Life and Death: Robert Motherwell’s Elegies in Bay Area Collections, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
2015: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Robert Motherwell and The New York School at Hunter, Dedalus Foundation, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Motherwell as Printmaker: The Artist at Work, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell: A Centennial Celebration, Dedalus Foundation, Provincetown, MA (solo exhibition)
Master Prints of the ‘70s – ‘90s, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2014 - 2015: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2014-2015:
Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, 1951-1991, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2014: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Robert Motherwell: Collage, Part II, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell: At five in the afternoon, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944–1952, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo exhibition)
Made in the USA: American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850-1970, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Denver Art Museum, CO
Sincerely Yours: Treasures of the Queen City, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Gauguin to Warhol: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Van Gogh to Rothko: Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
2013 - 2014: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2013-2014:
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2013: Robert Motherwell Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Robert Motherwell: A Survey, Paintings/Paper/Prints, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell: Collage, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Robert Motherwell: Four Decades of Collage, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (solo exhibition)
American Gestures: Abstract Expressionism, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Hidden Treasures Unveiled: Watercolors, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Disturbing the Piece: An Expedition through the World of Collages, MARTa Herford, Germany; Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
2012: Robert Motherwell: Prints from the Artist's Studio (London) - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Robert Motherwell: Abstract Expressionist - St. Louis University Museum of Art - SLUMA, St. Louis, USA
The Essential Idea: Robert Motherwell's Graphic Works - Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, USA
2011: Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Focus: Robert Motherwell - Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Robert Motherwell: Music - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2010: Robert Motherwell - Paintings - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Robert Motherwell - printmaking impressions - Galerie Weihergut Biberngasse, Salzburg, Austria
Lost in Form, Found in Line: Works by Robert Motherwell - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA
2009: The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Aquisitions since 2002, Morgan Library and Museum, USA
Robert Motherwell: Unique Monotypes, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945-1965, Robert Miller Gallery, USA
Robert Motherwell: Lost in Form, Found in Line, Turchin Center for the Visual Art, Boone, USA
Robert Motherwell, Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
2008: The Hands of Art, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Museum Morsbroich, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Robert Motherwell: Five Great Opens, Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London, England
Reflections on Light, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
2007: Temptations, The Columns, Seoul, Korea
2006: Black, Black & White, White, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York , USA
2005: Looking at Words, erie, Das MoMA, Berlin, Germany
2004: Robert Motherwell, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA
Robert Motherwell, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Robert Motherwell from the Collection: 1940–1990, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
2003: Robert Motherwell, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Robert Motherwell - A la pintura (to painting), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2002: Robert Motherwell: Drawings and Related Prints - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Robert Motherwell - Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
1999: Robert Motherwell: Unique Works on Paper: Monoprints and Monotypes, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1998: Robert Motherwell's Graphics II, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
1996: Robert Motherwell: Reality and Abstraction, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1994: Robert Motherwell's Graphics I, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
1984: Robert Motherwell, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983: The Painter and The Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics, 1943-1980, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
M. Knowdler, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA (solo)
1982: The New School: Four Decades, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1981 - 1983: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York, USA (solo)

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Public Collections

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA

Literature

1997
Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages( text by David Rosand): Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition

Robert Motherwell: A Dialogue with Literature(text by Robert Motherwell and Bernd Kluser), Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany(catalogue)

Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991 Catalogue Raisonné(text by Robert Motherwell and Siri Engberg), Walker Art Center

Robert Motherwell

(American, 1915–1991)

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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