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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. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 8h

Untitled https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/97070

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 9h

Mezzotint in Crimson http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66255

Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 16h

Untitled http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-no-title-p77808

Purchased 1996

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 1d

Untitled from The Madrid Suite http://www.moma.org/collection/works/75212

Gift of the artist

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 1d

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/108209

Gift of the artist

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 1d

Africa 7 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-africa-7-p04618

Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 2d

Open Study #8 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/96764

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 2d

Beside the Sea No. 22 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/beside-the-sea-no-22-1962

Beside the Sea No. 22

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 2d

Africa 5 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-5-1970

Africa 5

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 3d

To the Palette, from A la pintura https://www.artic.edu/artworks/122145/

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

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 3d

Untitled from The Madrid Suite http://www.moma.org/collection/works/75207

Gift of the artist

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 3d

Dutch Linen III from the Dutch Linen Suite http://www.moma.org/collection/works/68059

John B. Turner Fund

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 4d

Gauloises Bleues (Raw Umber Edge) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67620

Gift of Celeste Bartos

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 4d

In Black and White No. 2 (Africa) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78870

Given anonymously

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 4d

Plate (folio 13 verso) from In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11202

Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 5d

Beside the Sea No. 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/beside-the-sea-no-1-1962

Beside the Sea No. 1

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 5d

Iberia No. II http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-iberia-no-ii-t07138

Acquired by purchase and gift from the Dedalus Foundation 1996

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 5d

No. 12 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-no-12-p04631

Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 6d

Spanish Elegy II https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/51151/

Spanish Elegy II

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 6d

Africa 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-1-1970

Africa 1

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 6d

Game of Chance http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/motherwell-game-of-chance-p12161

Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 7d

Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79007

Charles Mergentime Fund

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 7d

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

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 7d

Africa 9 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-9-1970

Africa 9

Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 8d

Beside the Sea No. 64 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/beside-the-sea-no-64-1963

Beside the Sea No. 64