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Robert Motherwell
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Motherwell, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1959
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Born January 24, 1915 • Aberdeen • Washington
Died July 16, 1991 (aged 76) • Provincetown • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Africa” • “Indian Summer, #2”
Movement / Style Abstract Expressionism
Notable Family Members spouse Helen Frankenthaler
Subjects Of Study aesthetics

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Motherwell, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1959
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Clement Greenberg
American critic
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Ad Reinhardt
American artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Fairfield Porter
American painter, printmaker, and writer
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
Berenson, photograph by David Seymour
Bernard Berenson
American art critic
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
American artist
Mark Rothko: Untitled (1954) and Yellow Band (1956)
Mark Rothko
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
American artist
Norman Lewis
American painter
Grace Hartigan
American painter
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell
American painter
Ethel Schwabacher
American artist
Harold Rosenberg
American art critic
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
American painter
Lee Bontecou: Untitled
Lee Bontecou
American artist
Lawrence Alloway
American curator and art critic
Jay DeFeo
American painter, sculptor, and jewelry maker

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