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24.1.1915
Born in Aberdeen, WA (US)
Motherwell is one of the most recognized of the American Abstract Expressionist painters.
After receiving a Bachelor´s degree in philosophy from Stanford University, and beginning graduate studies at Harvard, Motherwell set out in 1938 for a year of travel in Europe. It was during this trip that he began painting in earnest, holding his first one-man show at the Raymond Duncan Gallery in Paris in 1939.
Motherwell moved to Greenwich Village in 1941, abandoning his academic studies to paint full time.
In 1942 he met abstract artist William Baziotes, and was introduced to many of the abstract expressionists of New York. In abstract expressionism the "act" of painting becomes the "content" of the painting. Through gestural movements the artist is attempting to unleash their raw emotions, not paint pretty pictures.
Motherwell created his first collages at Jackson Pollock´s Studio in Greenwich Village and, along with Pollock and Baziotes was invited to exhibit at the Peggy Guggenheim "Art of This Century" gallery in New York City. For the next fifteen years he traveled extensively, taught art, and developed his style of painting, drawing and collage. Motherwell also participated in one-man and group exhibitions at galleries including The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
In 1961 Motherwell began making limited edition prints of his work. He was the only one of the original abstract expressionists to enthusiastically embrace printmaking. Motherwell worked with numerous print workshops in the United States and Europe. These collaborations between the Motherwell and the printmakers were a source of great satisfaction to the artist. He synthesized his unique abstract style, and the materials and technical characteristics of printmaking to create over 200 editions over the next 30 years.
16.7.1991
Died in Provincetown, MA (US)
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Public exhibitions 149 
from 15.5.
Ganz schön ART-ig - LECKERBISSEN III
 Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm 
until 8.7.
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
until 29.6.
Blood on Paper - the Art of the Book
Victoria and Albert Museum - V&A, London (England)
until 8.6.
Far Out! The 60s and 70s: Works from the Collection
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
until 25.5.
Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
until 18.5.
Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Solo shows 20
2007
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
2006
Robert Motherwell
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Robert Motherwell
William Shearburn Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
Robert Motherwell
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Robert Motherwell - Te Quiero
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2005
Robert Motherwell
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Dube-Heynig, Munich
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
2004
Robert Motherwell
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Robert Motherwell
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Robert Motherwell from the Collection: 1940–1990
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2003
Robert Motherwell
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England)
Robert Motherwell - Selected Prints
Marlborough New York, New York City, NY
Robert Motherwell - A la pintura (to painting)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
2001
Robert Motherwell
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
Robert Motherwell
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
1998
Robert Motherwells Graphics II
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Group shows 123
2008
Action Painting
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Blattgold - Meisterwerke der Grafischen Sammlung des Museum Morsbroich
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
The Hands of Art
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
2007
Abstract Expressionist Prints
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Tamańo Real
 Galería Cayón, Madrid
La vida privada - Coleccion Josep Civit
CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca
Homenaje a Picasso
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
Contemporary, Cool and Collected
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Collage/Collages - from Cubism to New DADA
Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin
Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Calculation and Impulse: Abstract American Prints
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Stripes
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Eclectic Eye - Pop and Illusion
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
The New York School- Works from a Private Collection
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Picasso and American Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Contemporary And Modern Masters
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Drawings
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of the Contemporary Museum
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
When Art Worlds Collide - The 60s
Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Contemporary Currents - Selections from the Bank of America Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Temptations
The Columns, Seoul
Künstler der Galerie
Galerie Dube-Heynig, Munich
Laura della serialitŕ
CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia
Group Show
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England)
American Master Prints
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (England)
Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2006
Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
A Century of Collage
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Black, Black & White, White
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York City, NY
Arena der Abstraktion
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Fall exhibition group show
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Black Paintings
HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich
Art on the Edge
Sommer in Berlin
Galerie Georg Nothelfer - Tiergarten, Berlin
Review - 25 Jahre Österreichische Ludwig Stiftung
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
PAPER
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Stock 06/07/2006
Waddington Galleries, London (England)
Black Mountain College
Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Mirada múltiple
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao
Marks of Intention. Abstract Art on Paper 1945-2005
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
At Home - Recent Acquisitions
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Smoking
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns - Poetic Works as Metaphor
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Great American Drawings
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Unknown Masterpiece
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Bacon. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
Contemporary Master Prints
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57
Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
LECKERBISSEN II
Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm
2005
Ecole de New York - Expressionnisme Abstrait - oeuvres sur papier
Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
Expresionismo Abstracto - Obra sobre papel
Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Mäzene der Kunst auf Papier
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Selected Drawings
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Looking at Words
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
For Meyer Schapiro - A portfolio of 12
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Works on Paper
Marlborough New York, New York City, NY
Highlights - New Acquisitions
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Acquisitions of the Last Five Years: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Art
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Hodgkin - Motherwell - Pasmore - Warhol
Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago, IL
Quartet - Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Black
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Major Prints
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Accrochage III
Galerie Georg Nothelfer - Tiergarten, Berlin
The Abstract Eye - Selections from the Permanent Collection
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Bloomsday 16. Juni 1904 - 16. Juni 2004
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Masterpieces of Modern Printmaking
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (England)
V.I.P.2 - Die Neuen
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Fragmentos - Arte del XX al XXI, Colección Pilar Citoler
Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid
Robert Motherwell and Frank Stella: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Picasso to Thiebaud
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Es Baluard any zero
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca
2003
Collection DEstampes Contemporaines
Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris
Entre el clavel y la espada: Rafael Alberti en su siglo
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
Black White
Danese, New York City, NY
The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th and 20th Century Works on Paper
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Eighties - Part II: USA
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
A Century of Painting - From Renior to Rothko
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Grafik
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Espańolas
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Some Assembly Required - Collage Culture in Post-War America
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
American Art - The Wilfred Davis Fletcher Collection
Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Motherwell, Hartung, Fruhtrunk, Sonderborg, Vedova, Trökes
Galerie Dube-Heynig, Munich
Leckerbissen
Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm
Graphic Works from the Lopez Collection
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting Explosion - 1958 1963, Part I
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Abstract Expressionism - Art Movement in the 20th Century
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2002
Memoir of Freedom
CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
Glimpses of the Permanent Collection
CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
All American, Part II
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
The Big Americans - The Art of Collaboration
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
American Abstraction
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (England)
Art Since the Mid-Twentieth Century - A Politicized Cultural Climate
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Arte Múltipla
Galeria 111 - Lisboa, Lisbon
The Synthetic Century - Collage from Cubism to Postmodernism
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001
All American
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
Best Impressions - 35 years of prints and sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
A defining generation. Then and Now. 1961 and 2001
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Minimalismos. Un signo de los tiempos
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Collecting Our Thoughts - The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collect
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Arte internazionale a Prato - Open Art, sguardi sul presente
Galleria Open Art, Prato
Eye of Modernism
Georgia OKeeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Motherwell, Nevelson and Frankenthaler
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Impression To Form - Selected Works From SAMs Tyler Art Collection
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2000
Aller Anfang ist MERZ - Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Expresionismo Abstracto
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Hartung - Motherwell - Sonderborg - Vedova - Heiliger - Uhlmann - Paolozzi
Galerie Dube-Heynig, Munich
1999
Grandes del Grabado - Agosto ´99
Dionis Bennassar Galería de Arte, Madrid
Paper Invitational II
Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
Expressive Abstraktion - Hartung, Motherwell, Vedova, Sonderborg: Papierarbeiten
Galerie Dube-Heynig, Munich
Drawn from Artists Collections
The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
1998
Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
The New York School
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
The Language of Abstraction
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Master Drawings
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The Collection, Work In Focus - The New York International Portfolio
Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Robert Motherwell und Cy Twombly, Mappenwerke und Graphiken
Galerie Georg Nothelfer - Charlottenburg, Berlin
Dealer Directory 56
Australia
Annandale Galleries, Annandale, NSW
Austria
Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
Galerie Weihergut Altstadtgalerie, Salzburg
Canada
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
France
Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
Opera Gallery, Paris
Galerie Piltzer, Paris
Germany
Galerie Georg Nothelfer - Charlottenburg, Berlin
Galerie Georg Nothelfer - Tiergarten, Berlin
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
ARTAX Ralph Kleinsimlinghaus Kunsthandel KG, Dusseldorf
Galerie Dube-Heynig, Munich
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Italy
Galeria D'Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome
Japan
Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Spain
Polígrafa Obra Grafica, Barcelona
Estiarte, Madrid
Altair, Palma de Mallorca
Switzerland
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
United Kingdom
THE ANDIPA GALLERY, London (England)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (England)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England)
Scolar Fine Art, London (England)
USA
Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Doubletake Gallery, Burnsville, MN
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
Jonathan O’Hara Gallery, New York City, NY
Tobey Fine Arts, New York City, NY
Edward Tyler Nahem, New York City, NY
Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Pascal de Sarthe Fine Art, Paradise Valley, AZ
Works on Paper, Inc. WP Editions, Philadelphia, PA
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cynthia Drennon Fine Arts, Inc., Santa Fe, NM
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Burton Marinkovich Fine Art, Washington, DC
Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Public collections 67
Brazil
mam - Museu de Arte Moderna de Săo Paulo, Săo Paulo
Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Colombia
Museo Botero, Santafé de Bogota
Finland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Germany
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Iran
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Ireland (Republic)
Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Spain
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
United Kingdom
Tate Britain, London (England)
USA
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines (IL)
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, WV
The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
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