Robert Motherwell
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About
Abstract painter and printmaker associated with the New York School movement along with Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
Before Fame
He studied at the California School of Fine Arts and at Stanford University. His reading of symbolist literature, such as the works of Mallarmé, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, and Octavio Paz, inspired his work in modernism.
Trivia
His travels to Mexico inspired his work "Little Spanish Prison" from 1944.
Family Life
He was the eldest son of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. He had two children with his wife Helen Frankenthaler, whom he married in 1958.
Associated With
He was influenced by the work of surrealist painter Max Ernst.
