ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988 joanne tod museum intervention she was partly inspired by

she was partly inspired by an act of self-reflection after taking an ancestry test

While at first glance her nature is easygoing

This particular work boasts a beautiful palette of maroon

The artist's signature bold colour enliven the complex geometric shapes that feature prominently in his work of this era

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988 joanne tod museum intervention she was partly inspired byRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. While Motherwell's contribution to the art historical canon as a painter is undisputed, his role as a printmaker is arguably just as important. From the early 1960s until his