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Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present a survey exhibition of paintings, works on paper and prints by Robert Motherwell. Featured works will include paintings from the Hollow Men series, Open series and an important Elegy series painting, as well as collages, ink drawings, etchings and lithographs.
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was the youngest member of the heroic generation of post-war Abstract Expressionists who revolutionized painting and shifted the art world's attention from Paris to New York. He is also the only one of the group (which included Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, and Willem DeKooning) for whom printmaking became a major preoccupation. Motherwell's work as a printmaker, as well as a painter, distinguished him, both for his innovations in graphic media and for his stunning images on canvas and paper.
Robert Motherwell was born on January 24, 1915 in Aberdeen, Washington. As a child, he moved with his family to California - first to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Stanford University in 1937, Motherwell pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard. He spent a year in Paris and then moved to New York in 1939, where he studied art history with Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University. Renowned as one of the founders of Abstract Expressionism, Motherwell became an artist of international stature. His career encompassed more than five decades, and he received virtually every honor accorded to an artist.
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Paintings
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PAPER
Monotypes & Unique Works-
Robert Motherwell, RED AND BLACK NO. 8, THE, 1987-88
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED (GRAND VIN ON RED), 1973
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Robert Motherwell, PAPETERIES, 1975
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Robert Motherwell, DRUNK WITH TURPENTINE, 1979
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Robert Motherwell, DRUNK WITH TURPENTINE NO. 16, 1979
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Robert Motherwell, DRUNK WITH TURPENTINE NO. 37, 1979
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985
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Robert Motherwell, OPEN FORMS (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED, 1986
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED, c. 1981
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED, 1966
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED (OPEN), 1975
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED (BLACK AND WHITE STROKES), 1975
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED, 1981
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Robert Motherwell, GESTURE SERIES NO. 8, 1971
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED NO. 22, 1976
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Robert Motherwell, UNTITLED 1974, 1974
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Robert Motherwell, LYRIC SUITE, 1965
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Robert Motherwell, LYRIC SUITE, 1965
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Prints
Editioned Works-
Robert Motherwell, ELEGY SKETCH, 1987
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Robert Motherwell, DJARUM, 1975
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Robert Motherwell, ELEGY FRAGMENT II, 1985
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Robert Motherwell, BLOOMSDAY, 1982
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