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Motherwell, Robert
(b. 24 January 1915 in Aberdeen, Washington; d. 16 July 1991 in Provincetown, Massachusetts), painter, printmaker, writer, and educator who was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
Motherwell was the first of two children born to Robert Burns Motherwell and Margaret Hogan Motherwell and raised on the Pacific Coast.
Robert motherwell biography
His father was a prominent banker and provided educational opportunities largely unknown to the other abstract expressionist artists. As a child, Motherwell suffered from severe asthmatic attacks and was sent to Moran Preparatory School in Atascadero in the dry climate of southern California, where he developed a love for the broad spaces and bright colors that later characterized some of his abstract paintings.
His later concerns with themes of mortality can also be traced to frail health as a child. From 1932 until 1937 he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at Stanford University in California, and discovered in Fr