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Robert Motherwell, The Artists
Portrait of Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell was a U.S. artist born on January 24, 1915. Motherwell contributed to the Abstract Expressionist and Surrealist movements, worked in Mexico and died on July 16, 1991.

Personage (Autoportrait), Robert Motherwell

Personage (Autoportrait) 1943

Ulysses, Robert Motherwell

Ulysses 1947

Iberia, Robert Motherwell

Iberia 1958

Open No. 122 in Scarlet and Blue, Robert Motherwell

Open No. 122 in Scarlet and Blue 1969

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110, Robert Motherwell

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 1971

Music for J.S. Bach, Robert Motherwell

Music for J.S. Bach 1989

Barnett Newman, The ArtistsPortrait of Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman

Staring down the present moment

1905 – 1970
Robert Rauschenberg, The ArtistsPortrait of Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

Blowing up modernism

1925 – 2008
Thornton Dial, The ArtistsPortrait of Thornton Dial

Thornton Dial

1928 – 2016
Salvador Dalí, The Artists

Salvador Dalí

So much more than a mustache

1904 – 1989
Pablo Picasso, The Artists

Pablo Picasso

The man who ate the world's art

1881 – 1973
Kay Sage, The ArtistsPortrait of Kay Sage

Kay Sage

"I have built an ivory tower of despair"

1898 – 1963
19012000

Faeq Hassan

Zainul Abedin

Robert Motherwell

Claude Clark

Oscar Howe

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