Robert Motherwell

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.

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Category:American painters
Category:1915 births
Category:1991 deaths