Robert Motherwell: The Drawings of a Painter

By Katy Rogers

FEB 2023 | Editor's Message

The catalogue raisonné of Robert Motherwell’s drawings, which was published by Yale University Press in November 2022, was the culmination of more than ten years of research and serves as a companion to the 2012 catalogue raisonné of Motherwell’s paintings and collages.

Robert Motherwell Illustrating Poetry

By Heidi Colsman-Freyberger

FEB 2023 | Critics Page

In his eulogy for Robert Motherwell the English critic Bryan Robertson remarked, “No other artist in this century could have been quite so much in love with literature, and, above all, poetry.”

Robert Motherwell: Blood-Stained Papers

By Susan Davidson

FEB 2023 | Critics Page

From the start of his art making practice, Robert Motherwell worked simultaneously across media, producing paintings, collages, and works on paper in near equal measure with a remarkable consistency of vocabulary. It was, however, his early engagement with paper rather than canvas where Motherwell found his confidence as an artist.

Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself

By Phong Bui

DEC 22–JAN 23 | ArtSeen

Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself, a comprehensive survey of Motherwell’s drawings, is quite literally an eye-opening exhibition.