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Motherwell, Robert

LC control no.n 50006652
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingMotherwell, Robert
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeParis (France) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date1915-01-24
Death date1991-07-16
Place of birthAberdeen (Wash.)
Place of deathProvincetown (Mass.)
Profession or occupationPainters Printmakers Authors
Found inThe Dada painters and poets, 1951.
Robert Motherwell, 1915/1991: p. 94 (b. Jan. 24, 1915, Aberdeen, Washington; artist) p. 99 (d. June 16, 1991, Provincetown)
The complete correspondence of Robert Motherwell, 1992: p. xvii (Robert Burns Motherwell III)
Wikipedia, Mar. 5, 2012 (Robert Motherwell; b. January 24, 1915; d. July 16, 1991; American painter, printmaker and editor. Throughout the 1950s Motherwell taught painting at Hunter College in New York and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. At this time, he was a prolific writer and lecturer, and in addition to directing the influential Documents of Modern Art Series, he edited The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, published in 1951)
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Motherwell>
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) Online, 2 October 2017 (Motherwell, Robert (American painter, printmaker, and author, 1915-1991); was a major figure of the Abstract Expressionist generation; BA in philosophy, Stanford University (1936); began his career as a painter in 1939 in Paris; studied history from 1940-1941 at Columbia University, New York; born: Aberdeen (Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States; died: Cape Cod (Barnstable county, Massachusetts, United States)
Dedalus Foundation website, January 19, 2023 (Dedalus Foundation; founded by Robert Motherwell, 1991)
Associated languageeng