Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell
Born	(1915-01-24)January 24, 1915 Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.
Died	July 16, 1991(1991-07-16) (aged 76) Provincetown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Stanford University, Harvard, Columbia University
Known for	Painting, Printmaking
Movement	Abstract expressionism

Ulysses, oil paint on three dementional cardboard and wood construction by Robert Motherwell, 1947, Tate Modern

Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American artist. He was an important painter in the abstract expressionist movement.

Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington in 1915. When he was 11 years old, he was given money to study art. In 1932 he studied painting at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. After getting a B. A. from Stanford University in 1937, he began to study philosophy at Harvard University. He studied in Europe for a year. He had his first art show in Paris in 1939.

Back in New York, he was friends with artists William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock. He was married to the painter Helen Frankenthaler from 1958 until 1971.

Motherwell died in 1991, at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.