ROBERT MOTHERWELL "THREE FORMS" ETCHING & AQUATINT, 1988Robert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. Motherwell, an uncommonly gifted communicator, acted as the unofficial spokesman of the New York School writing, teaching, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow

Alternatively are his eyes closed because he is cherishing the moment

circa 1979

They with photography

Born in Winnipeg in 1974

and his ongoing commitment to and exploration of color-field painting

Throughout her prolific career

For most of the 1950s

Working in encaustic

During this period leading American abstract artists were staining their canvases or taping surfaces for hard-edge compositions

20"H 28"W (work)

and Switzerland

5"H 4"W (visible)