ROBERT MOTHERWELL 7 february – 5 april 2014
ROBERT MOTHERWELL 7 february – 5 april 2014
TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY 62 SOUTH GLENWOOD ST PO BOX 1435 JACKSON WY 83001 TEL 307 733 0555 WWW.TAYLOEPIGGOTTGALLERY.COM
I.H. Series No. 19, 1970 ink over lithograph on paper 22 x 17 inches
Africa Suite: Africa 3, 1970 screenprint on J.B. Green paper 40 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches
Untitled (Figure), 1976 ink on paper 30 x 22 1/4 inches
Rite of Passage I, 1980 lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd (TGL) handmade paper 25 3/8 x 29 3/4 inches
Australian Stone, 1984 aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint, chine colle 23 1/2 x 30 inches
Disappearance of Goya’s Dog, 1990 acrylic, pasted paper on canvas mounted on panel 8 x 24 inches
May Linen Suite #1, 1990 etching on twinrocker may linen paper 20 x 21 1/2 inches
May Linen Suite #5, 1990 etching on twinrocker may linen paper 20 x 21 1/2 inches
May Linen Suite #8, 1990 etching on twinrocker may linen paper 20 x 21 1/2 inches
Untitled (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 china marker on paper 3 x 5 inches
Untitled (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 ink and china marker on paper 3 x 5 inches
Untitled (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 graphite & ink wash on paper 3 x 5 inches
Open Forms (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 ink on paper 3 x 5 inches
Untitled (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 ink and china marker on paper 3 x 5 inches
Untitled (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 china marker on paper 5 x 3 inches
Untitled (from the Joyce Sketchbook), 1985 ink wash and china marker on paper 3 x 5 inches
R O B E R T M OT H E RW E L L (1915 – 1991) 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, he 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 received virtually every honor accorded to an artist. His work has been the subject of countless museum exhibitions and publications. Motherwell died in July of 1991. Robert Motherwell is unquestionably one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century. In the 1940s, Motherwell became the youngest member of a group of artists known as the Abstract Expressionists. Like other Abstract Expressionists (such as Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko), Motherwell rejected conventional realism. Instead he was interested in exploring a reality that went beyond the recognizable image. Motherwell had a particular fascination and preference for working with paper. He also felt that his
involvement with printmaking was just as important and vital to his work as his collages or paintings on canvas. With a career that spanned half a century, Robert Motherwell has been represented in countless museum and gallery exhibitions. His first major retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965. Since that time, he has been honored with retrospectives by the AlbrightKnox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, among many others.
IMPORTANT LIFE DATES 1915
Born on January 24 in Aberdeen, WA
1978
Received Grande Médaille de Vermeil in Paris, France
1983
Gold Medal of Honor 1983, National Arts Club, New York, NY
1989
Received National Medal of Art, Washington, D.C.
1991
Died in Provincetown, Massachusetts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2003
Small Paintings & Works on Paper, Galerie Bernd Klüser,
Munich, Germany 2002
Themes + Variations, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
The Spontaneous Gesture: Prints and Books of the Abstract
Expressionist Era, The Australian National Gallery of Art,
Canberra, Australia 1983
Robert Motherwell, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, NY
1981
American Prints: Process & Proofs, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1980
The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell’s Graphics
1943-1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1978
Retrospective, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1977
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1974
American Prints 1913-63, Riva Castleman, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
1972
Robert Motherwell’s A la pintura: The Genesis of a Book,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1969
Prints by Four New York Painters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
1965
Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
1946
Fourteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1944
Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century, New York, NY
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
ROBERT MOTHERWELL 7 february – 5 april 2014
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