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Robert Motherwell: Lyric Suite
By Robert C. MorganJUNE 2022 | ArtSeen
My first encounter with Robert Motherwells ink paintings, collectively titled Lyric Suite, occurred in 1965. Not only was this the same year the works in this series were painted, but it was also the year of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art featuring Motherwells large-scale works on canvassuch as those from the Elegy to the Spanish Republic seriescurated by the distinguished poet Frank OHara. This would eventually combine with a separate exhibition of the artists works on paper, including those from Lyric Suite. It was within this context that the works currently on view at Kasmin Gallery emerged into notoriety.
The Dedalus Foundation
By Phyllis TuchmanDEC 21-JAN 22 | ArTonic
Robert Motherwell was a multi-hyphenate artist. Hes entered art history books as the youngest and best educated of the first wave of Abstract Expressionists. But Motherwell also enjoyed a significant career as the editor of the Documents of Modern Art series, among other publications, and as a Hunter College professor.
Elaine Reichek: Material Girl
By Norman L KleeblattAPRIL 2022 | ArtSeen
Elaine Reichek scavenges among sources from literature, history, mythology, and art, fabricating images and texts she transforms into textiles. Trained as a painter by avant-garde, intellectually rigorous icons, notably Ad Reinhardt, her career has been defined by her strategic use of the textile mediuma feminist, postmodern strategy.
A Correspondence With Motherwell
By Robert C. MorganJUNE 2020 | Critics Page
My initial contact with artists writings happened in the beginning stages of learning to paint while keeping a journal of notes and drawings in the process. I was in my early 20s and living in Santa Barbara, California. It was the 1970s and I recall seeing an exhibition at LACMA where two large paintings from Robert Motherwells Open series (circa 196970) were on display.