biography
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Motherwell, Robert (Burns)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–91)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (1932), majored in philosophy at Stanford University (1932–6) and Harvard (1937–8), and worked under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University (1940–1). He was based in New York City, and his first paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian, as in ‘Spanish Picture with Window’ (1942). By 1948 he began his black and white oils, ‘Elegies to the Spanish Republic’ (1948–68), and a later series, ‘Open’ (1968–75), is based on an exploration of windows and walls. His reputation as a theorist and painter within the abstract expressionist school continues to grow. |
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