Product Description: Robert Motherwell (1915–91) came to abstraction not through painting, but through philosophy, poetry and art history. While studying at Stanford, he was introduced to modernism and symbolism; Mallarmé’s dictum, “To paint, not the thing, but the effect it provides,” would prove essential in Motherwell’s work...read more

Product Description: Robert Motherwell (1915–91) was a major figure in the birth and development of Abstract Expressionism and the youngest member of the "New York School," a term he coined. His career spanned five decades during which time he created some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Robert Motherwell: Early Collages, published to accompany an exhibition devoted exclusively to Motherwell’s works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s, reexamines the origins of the artist’s style and his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944 as “the greatest of our discoveries...read more

Product Description: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school —Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, and others—during a period when their work was often reviled for its departure from traditional representation...read more

Product Description: One of the great 20th century Abstract Expressionists who made New York the centre of the art world, Motherwell was the most committed, innovative, and prolific printmaker of his generation. More than 500 editions in every printmaking medium with all new research and commentary.

A compilation of essays, lectures, and articles by the renowned abstract expressionist provides readers with the definitive collection of Motherwell's written work.

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Product Description: Caws discusses the artist's paintings, drawings, and collages in relation to the wide variety of American and European literature, philosophy, and art which influenced Motherwell.

Gathers portraits of artists, entertainers, writers, composers, and performers, including Duke Ellington, Henry Moore, Man Ray, and Virgil Thomson

Presents the pen-and-ink sketches of the abstract expressionist artist

Presents the pen-and-ink sketches of the abstract expressionist artist