In Plato's Cave No. 1
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acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 182.9 x 243.8 cm (72 x 96 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund
Accession Number
1999.1.1
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 ...