Palo Alto
started 1973, published 1978
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in red and black on Arches 88 wove paper
Dimensions
image: 76.4 x 45.9 cm (30 1/16 x 18 1/16 in.) sheet: 91.7 x 61.1 cm (36 1/8 x 24 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1990.27.40
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 ...