ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print Annotated “Children” and “426” in

Annotated “Children” and “426” in pencil verso

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This print is held in the permanent collection of the MoMA

Acquired from the Nina Freudenheim Gallery (Buffalo)

ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print Annotated “Children” and “426” inRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American artists that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the post war art world. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching, and lecturing extensively on behalf of abstract expressionism, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. In addition