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MOTHERWELL Robert
(1915-1991)
"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it"
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| Robert MOTHERWELL, a few dates |
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| 1915 |
born in Aberdeen (US) |
| 1939 |
first personal exhibition at the Raymon Duncan gallery in Paris |
| 1941 |
travels with Roberto Matta in Mexico for six months |
| 1942 |
frequents the group of artists from the New York school: William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Hans Hofmann
participates to the "First papers of Surrealism" exhibition, organized by Marcel Duchamp and André Breton |
| 1943 |
works on his first collage |
| 1948 |
founds the "Subjects of the Artists" with Rothko, Hare, Newman and Baziotes
paints his first "Elegy" |
| 1950 |
represents the United States at the Venice Biennial and at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1951 |
| 1991 |
died in Provincetown |
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