Red Sea II
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liftground etching and aquatint in red and black on German Etching wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 60 x 50.3 cm (23 5/8 x 19 13/16 in.) sheet: 87.5 x 73.5 cm (34 7/16 x 28 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner
Accession Number
1990.106.17
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 ...