ROBERT MOTHERWELL "BASQUE SUITE #12" SCREENPRINT, 1971 rent party 1950s Positioned within the larger narrative

Positioned within the larger narrative of the retrospective

“Nose 22”

Exhibition history: The Outsiders

a fresh palette and often through a humorous lens

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "BASQUE SUITE #12" SCREENPRINT, 1971 rent party 1950s Positioned within the larger narrativeRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world. An uncommonly gifted communicator, Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School of painters, writing, editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and