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Robert Motherwell

American, 1915-1991

Sidney J. Waintrob (American, 1902–2002) and Abraham L. Waintrob (American, 1908–2004). Robert Motherwell, 1957. Gelatin silver print. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Samuel I. Hoffberg, 1981 (P1981:25.44). © The Waintrob Project for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Works by This Artist

On Stage, 1983

Robert Motherwell
Gesture I (State I), 1976-1977

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the Dutch Linen Suite, 1974

Robert Motherwell
Colophon page from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Chair, 1972

Robert Motherwell
The August Sea #6, 1972

Robert Motherwell
A la Pintura #XII, 1971

Robert Motherwell
Untitled, 1944

Robert Motherwell
Metaphor and Movement, 1974

Robert Motherwell
Ten Works X Ten Painters, 1964

Stuart Davis, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, George Earl Ortman, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol
Portfolio 9, 1967

Sam Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Henry Pearson, Saul Steinberg, Willem de Kooning
Ten Works X Ten Painters, 1964

Stuart Davis, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, George Earl Ortman, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol
Untitled from The Basque Suite, 1970-1971 (published 1972)

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from The Basque Suite, 1970-1971 (published 1972)

Robert Motherwell
Black Sea, 1979

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the Dutch Linen Suite, 1974

Robert Motherwell
Capriccio, 1961

Robert Motherwell
Calligraphic Study I, 1976

Robert Motherwell
Untitled, 1976

Robert Motherwell
Untitled, 1977

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Ten Works X Ten Painters, 1964

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from Portfolio 9, 1967

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Ten Works X Ten Painters, 1964

Robert Motherwell
Beau Geste VI, 1989

Robert Motherwell
"White" 3-6 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV, 1953-1954

Robert Motherwell
"Red" 8-11 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Red" 4-7 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Red" 1-3 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Blue" 12-13 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Blue" 6-11 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Blue" 5 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Blue" 4 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Table of Contents from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from The Basque Suite, 1970-1971 (published 1972)

Robert Motherwell
"Black" 5-11 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Blue" 1-3 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Black" 1-3 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Preface by Rafael Alberti (from "La arboleda perdida [The Lost Grove], 1959) and accompanying aquatint by Robert Motherwell from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"Black" 4 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
End page from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
To the Paintbrush from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"White" 14-15 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"White" 10-13 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"White" 7-9 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
To the Palette from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
"White" 1-2 from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Title page from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Africa Suite, 1970

Robert Motherwell
Frontispiece from the portfolio A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Africa Suite, 1970

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Africa Suite, 1970

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Africa Suite, 1970

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from the portfolio Africa Suite, 1970

Robert Motherwell
Untitled from The Basque Suite, 1970-1971 (published 1972)

Robert Motherwell
[Five untitled screen prints] from the portfolio Africa Suite, 1970

Robert Motherwell
A la pintura, 1968-1972

Robert Motherwell
Poet II, 1961-1962

Robert Motherwell

No image available,
but we’re working on it
Summer Light Series: Harvest, in Scotland, 1973

Robert Motherwell

No image available,
but we’re working on it
The Dalton Print, 1979

Robert Motherwell

No image available,
but we’re working on it
No.15 from the Madrid Suite, 1965-1966

Robert Motherwell

No image available,
but we’re working on it
Red Sea III, 1982-1983

Robert Motherwell

No image available,
but we’re working on it

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