ROBERT MOTHERWELL "THREE FORMS" ETCHING & AQUATINT, 1988 cherub 39"H 49"W (work)

39"H 49"W (work)

and interacts with itself and the world around it

with his hand on her shoulder

made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "THREE FORMS" ETCHING & AQUATINT, 1988 cherub 39"H 49"W (work)Robert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. Motherwell, an uncommonly gifted communicator, acted as the unofficial spokesman of the New York School writing, teaching, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow