| Robert Motherwell | ||
| Birth Date: January 24, 1915 |
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| Death Date: July 16, 1991 Artist Gallery |
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| Born in Aberdeen, Washington, Motherwell studied at the Otis Institute and the California School of Fine Arts before moving permanently to the East Coast as a young man. He studied philosophy at Harvard and art history at Columbia, deciding at age 26 to become a painter. In 1942, following a trip to Mexico, he settled in New York City to begin painting professionally.
In the course of long and prolific career, Motherwell tried his hand at a wide variety of styles, including drip-and-spatter expressions and color field combinations. But for the most part, his abstractionism remains carefully structured, with a tendency toward geometric images.
Motherwell found his medium in 1943 when noted art patron Peggy Guggenheim asked three American artists, including Motherwell, to contribute to the first all-collage show held in this country. Motherwell set to work with paper, scissors and paste, an experience that galvanized him to adopt collage as his continuing mode of expression. One year later, he held his first one-man show at the Art of This Century Gallery. Since then, he has been included in major exhibitions of American abstract art.
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