Robert Motherwell
The Joy of Living
1942
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Robert Motherwell
The Joy of Living
1942
Physical Qualities
Collage of construction paper, mulberry paper, fabric, and printed map with tempera and oil paints, ink, crayon, and graphite on paper, Sheet: 1115 x 912 mm. (43 7/8 x 35 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.344
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on loan, 1943; from Saidie A. May, by purchase, 1943; from Art of This Century, New York
Exhibition of Collage, Art of This Century Gallery, New York, April 1943.
London, Tate Gallery, September 1946.
BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," 1950 (cat. 87).
Color, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington D.C., 1953.
"Arts Festival," Goucher College, Towson, MD, 1956.
"Selections from the May Collection," Washington College Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, 27 September - 31 October 1957
Collages by Robert Motherwell, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., 1965.
Robert Motherwell, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965 (cat. No. 3, p. 200)
Saidie A. May Collection, September 6 - October 22, 1972 (catalogue illus. pp. 13, 50).
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 23 - March 21, 1976, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, May 18 - August, 1976.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, March 30 - May 14, 1978; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 5-Decemebr 3, 1978 (cat. illus. No. 93 p. 90)
Robert Motherwell, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September 15, 1983-Nov. 27, 1983 (cat. illus. #. 5 p. 56).
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings,BMA, February 27-April 29, 1990.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Robert Motherwell: Early Collages," September 27, 2013 - January 5 2014.
London, Tate Gallery, September 1946.
BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," 1950 (cat. 87).
Color, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington D.C., 1953.
"Arts Festival," Goucher College, Towson, MD, 1956.
"Selections from the May Collection," Washington College Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, 27 September - 31 October 1957
Collages by Robert Motherwell, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., 1965.
Robert Motherwell, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965 (cat. No. 3, p. 200)
Saidie A. May Collection, September 6 - October 22, 1972 (catalogue illus. pp. 13, 50).
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 23 - March 21, 1976, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, May 18 - August, 1976.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, March 30 - May 14, 1978; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 5-Decemebr 3, 1978 (cat. illus. No. 93 p. 90)
Robert Motherwell, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September 15, 1983-Nov. 27, 1983 (cat. illus. #. 5 p. 56).
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings,BMA, February 27-April 29, 1990.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Robert Motherwell: Early Collages," September 27, 2013 - January 5 2014.
'Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century,' New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications p. 140, ill.
"Robert Motherwell: Early Collages", fig. 48.
Robertson, Bryan. 'From a Notebook on Robert Motherwell', Studio International, volume 171, issue no. 875, March 1966, pp. 89-93.
Motherwell, Robert. The Collages of Robert Motherwell: a retrospective exhibition. Intro. note by Phillippe de Montebello; Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972; Fig. 1 page 11.
"BMA Today," Summer 2006, p. 21, ill.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting" Baltimore: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 204.
Flam, Jack D. "Robert Motherwell paintings and collages: a catalogue raisonné, 1941-1991," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. vol. III, p. 3-4, ill. p. 4.
Landau, Ellen G, "Mexico and American Modernism", New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2013; Fig. 97 page 142
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 232.
Inscribed: upper left in graphite: "MOTHERWELL 43"
Artist
Robert Motherwell
1914–1990
born Aberdeen, WA 1915; died Provincetown, MA 1991
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