Robert Motherwell’s Elegies in Bay Area Collections,” a concise but surprisingly expansive show that opens Saturday, Sept. 5, for a six-month run at the de Young Museum. The 13 abstract works ...

The young Motherwell was struck by Malraux's ... with strong feelings about the conflicting forces in it." Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington.

A larger version of "Africa 4" (1970), from Motherwell's Africa Suite, is available here. Fans of Robert Motherwell should check out the large collections at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ...

Either Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) never produced a drawing that wasn’t compelling or never allowed one to leave his studio. That conviction is borne out by “Robert Motherwell Drawing ...

An untitled abstract painting by Robert Motherwell that was stolen in 1978 has now been recovered by the FBI. It was among a number of works that went missing in 1978 when Motherwell switched ...

The drawing encompasses a scale that transcends size. The great Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell is such a master of drawing and the current exhibition at the Menil Drawing Institute is an ...

The late Abstract-Expressionist master Robert Motherwell often liked to downplay his elegant work as “artful scribbling”—just his unconscious hand wandering over a surface with a brush or pen.

In recent art world news, forty years after a 1967 painting by modernist painter Robert Motherwell had vanished, last week the “Untitled” work (now valued at $1 million) was returned to the ...

As one of the founders of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Robert Motherwell was nothing if not ambitious. “It took a lot of courage for Motherwell to make paintings of this scale ...