Easter Day 1979
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 87 × 57.5 cm (34 1/4 × 22 5/8 in.) sheet (irreg.): 99 × 77 cm (39 × 30 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Neal T. Turtell and Thomas G. Klarner
Accession Number
2022.35.41
About the Artist
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and writer who became one of the youngest members of the Abstract Expressionist movement and its most articulate intellectual spokesman. Born in Aberdeen, Washington, he studied philosophy at Stanford and Harvard, and art history at Columbia University under Meyer Schapiro, who encouraged him to pursue painting. Motherwell's most ...