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2 unusual facts about Robert Motherwell


Robert Motherwell

Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Kenneth Noland studied under and were influenced by Motherwell.

In fact, it was Berger who advised Motherwell to continue his education at Columbia University, under Meyer Shapiro.


Alfred Jensen

For the next 34 years, she was a patron of his work, and he accompanied her in extensive travels, together studying the masters throughout Europe and collecting works by artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Theo van Doesburg, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Naum Gabo and Fritz Glarner.

Antonio Peláez

In the 1940s, he traveled for five year in Europe, to Italy, France, Greece and Egypt, where he studied the works of Antoni Tàpies, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Rothko .

Bernard Jacobson Gallery

Recent years have seen the gallery continue to expand in this direction, with shows by American artists including Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Shirley Kaneda, European painters Bram Bogart and Pia Fries, and British artists Ben Nicholson, William Tillyer, Bruce McLean, and Marc Vaux.

Delaware Art Museum

Since the 1970s the museum has added works by modern artists, such as Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, George Segal and Jim Dine.

Edwin Manton

By 2005, the fund was worth $30m, and made possible the acquisition of major works by Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Donald Judd, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Bruce Nauman and Cildo Meireles.

Gertrude Kasle Gallery

Kasle's goal was to introduce the city of Detroit to the foremost contemporary artists in the country, some already well-established such as Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Lowell Nesbitt, Claes Oldenburg, Charles Pollock, Larry Rivers, and Jack Tworkov, as well as others just becoming known, such as Jim Dine and Ian Hornak.

Golf Ball

The use of black and white is regarded as dramatic, and although it may have been influenced by 1940s and 1950s works of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, it is more likely a commentary on Mondrian's 1917 Composition in Black and White.

Jo Baer

Baer's work of the late 1950s emulated paintings by members of the New York School, particularly Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko.

Luchita Hurtado

Moving to San Francisco, her contacts with artists and collectors included Isamu Noguchi, Gordon Onslow Ford, Jacqueline Johnson, Lucienne Bloch, James Broughton, Rene d'Harnoncourt and Robert Motherwell.

The Art of This Century gallery

The American artists shown at the gallery included William Baziotes, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, David Hare, Hans Hofmann, Gerome Kamrowski, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Charles Seliger, Clyfford Still, and Robert De Niro, Sr.

Victoria Blyth Hill

Among the artworks Blyth-Hill worked on are those by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Marc Chagall, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Isami Noguchi, Frank Stella, Craig Kauffman, and Wallace Berman.


see also

Marcelin Pleynet

He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York (in association with William Rubin), Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture, Les Modernes et la tradition, Les États-Units de la peinture and L’art abstrait.