Ferrara Blue Gallery

Robert Motherwell

(American, 1915–1991)

Robert Motherwell

America - La France variations IV

5,500 USD

Robert Motherwell

Chair

Price on Request

Robert Motherwell

Redness of Red, 1985

22,000 USD

Biography

Timeline

1915: Born in Aberdeen, WA
1937 - 1938: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1937: BA, philosophy, Stanford University, Standford, ca
1940: Columbia University; encouraged by Meyer Schapiro to study art and art history
1941: Traveled to Mexico with the surrealist painter Matta; decided to make painting his primary vocation
1950 - 1959: Taught painting at Hunter College in New York and in addition to directing the influential Documents of Modern Art series, he edited The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (1951)
1960 - 1979: Exhibited widely in both America and Europe
1965: Was given a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art; this show subsequently traveled to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Essen, and Turin
1967: Began to work on his Open series
1970: Moved to Greenwich, CT
1977: Was given a major mural commission for the new wing of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983: A major retrospective exhibition of Motherwell’s work was mounted at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; this exhibition was subsequently shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and New York
1991: Died in Provincetown, MA

Exhibitions

2013: A Survey - Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, USA
Ab-ex / Re-con - Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered - Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA
The Artist and the Poet - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Il Guggenheim. L'avanguardia americana 1945–1980 - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2012: Robert Motherwell: Prints from the Artist's Studio (London) - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Robert Motherwell: Abstract Expressionist - St. Louis University Museum of Art - SLUMA, St. Louis, USA
The Essential Idea: Robert Motherwell's Graphic Works - Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, USA
2011: Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Focus: Robert Motherwell - Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Robert Motherwell: Music - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2010: Robert Motherwell - Paintings - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Robert Motherwell - printmaking impressions - Galerie Weihergut Biberngasse, Salzburg, Austria
Lost in Form, Found in Line: Works by Robert Motherwell - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA
2009: The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Aquisitions since 2002, Morgan Library and Museum, USA
Robert Motherwell: Unique Monotypes, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945-1965, Robert Miller Gallery, USA
Robert Motherwell: Lost in Form, Found in Line, Turchin Center for the Visual Art, Boone, USA
Robert Motherwell, Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
2008: The Hands of Art, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Museum Morsbroich, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Robert Motherwell: Five Great Opens, Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London, England
Reflections on Light, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
2007: Temptations, The Columns, Seoul, Korea
2006: Black, Black & White, White, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York , USA
2005: Looking at Words, erie, Das MoMA, Berlin, Germany
2004: Robert Motherwell, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA
Robert Motherwell, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Robert Motherwell from the Collection: 1940–1990, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
2003: Robert Motherwell, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Robert Motherwell - A la pintura (to painting), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2002: Robert Motherwell: Drawings and Related Prints - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Robert Motherwell - Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
1999: Robert Motherwell: Unique Works on Paper: Monoprints and Monotypes, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1998: Robert Motherwell's Graphics II, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
1996: Robert Motherwell: Reality and Abstraction, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1994: Robert Motherwell's Graphics I, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
1984: Robert Motherwell, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983: The Painter and The Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics, 1943-1980, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
M. Knowdler, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA (solo)
1982: The New School: Four Decades, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1981 - 1983: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
: Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
: MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA

Literature

1997: Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages( text by David Rosand): Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
: Robert Motherwell: A Dialogue with Literature(text by Robert Motherwell and Bernd Kluser), Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany(catalogue)
: Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991 Catalogue Raisonné(text by Robert Motherwell and Siri Engberg), Walker Art Center