Robert Motherwell on paper
Subtitle: drawings, prints, collages
By: edited by David Rosand ; with essays by David Rosand ... [et al.].
Contributors: Rosand, David.; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Motherwell, Robert, -- 1915-  -- Exhibitions.
Description: The Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was best known as a painter, but he also created a remarkable body of works on paper. The drawings, prints, and collages in this book show a more intimate side of his visual sensibility; they reveal the very personal "handwriting" of the artist as he responded to the subtleties of paper, both as a medium and a material. Motherwell was in fact a most extraordinary draftsman, as this volume testifies.

Reproduced in color and in a generous format are more than a hundred of the artist's finest works on paper. The book is published to accompany an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University - an exhibition that was conceived and developed in discussions with the artist during the final year of his life. For this celebration of Motherwell's creative legacy, David Rosand has gathered a distinguished group of contributors.

Together, their essays on different aspects of Motherwell's work create a complex picture of a multifaceted artist.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, N.Y., January - March 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.