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Robert Burns Motherwell

Robert Burns Motherwell (1915 - 1991) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts.  Robert Motherwell is known for Abstract expressionist painting, collage.

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American painter, Robert Motherwell, was one of the founders and principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism*, who was among the first American artists to cultivate accidental elements in his work.  A precocious youth, Motherwell received a scholarship to study art when he was 11 years old.  He preferred academic studies, however, and eventually took degrees in aesthetics from Stanford and Harvard universities.

Motherwell decided to become a serious artist only in 1941.  Although he was especially influenced by the Surrealist* artists; Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and André Masson; he remained largely self-taught.  His early work followed no single style, but already contained motifs from which much of his later art grew.  He received his first one-man show in 1944 at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery* in New York City.  In the mid-1940s, Motherwell painted abstract figurative works that showed the influence of Surrealism*.&nb   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 42512 characters.]  Artist bio

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