ROBERT MOTHERWELL
January 24, 1915-July 16, 1991
ROBERT MOTHERWELL AT M.I.T.
A standard short bio of Motherwell identifies him as "one of the major artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement and also the leading spokesman for that generation of artists," and identifies "certain recurrent themes and motifs, such as the monumental Elegies to the Spanish Republic, the intensely brooding Iberia paintings, and the lyrical Opens."
PBS featured Motherwell in one of its American Masters programs.
One of his daughters, Jeannie Motherwell, has contributed an engaging set of "Recollections" of her father, with vivid details of the artist's attempts to shape his working environment.
Motherwell himself gave an extensive series of interviews at the time of the photograph above, interviews lodged at the Smithsonian under the title Oral history interview with Robert Motherwell, 1971 Nov. 24-1974 May 1, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and available on line here.
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