On View
Not on viewObject number2009.46
Untitled
Artist
Robert Motherwell
(American, 1915-1991)
Date1966
Mediumetching
Dimensionssheet: 22 × 29 7/8 in. (55.9 × 75.9 cm)
image: 17 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (44.5 × 59.7 cm)
image: 17 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (44.5 × 59.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label Text“Make no mistake, abstract art is a form of mysticism,” asserted Robert Motherwell. His prints and paintings are intended to express an emotional and spiritual honesty that he feels are best conveyed by abstract imagery. From the study of philosophy in college, Motherwell understood abstraction as the process of stripping away inessentials to reveal the necessary. Attempting to express this notion through art, he encountered other artists in New York with similar desires. They became the American pioneers of abstract methods and imagery in the 1940s and ’50s.
