ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print celebrity-obsessed

celebrity-obsessed

Note: This print is based on the 1928 glass picture Bowers

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Acquired from the Nina Freudenheim Gallery (Buffalo)

Annotated “Children” and “426” in pencil verso

ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print celebrity-obsessedRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American artists that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the post war art world. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching, and lecturing extensively on behalf of abstract expressionism, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. In addition