Robert Motherwell and VVV
Yellow Abstract Composition
1941-1942
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink and watercolor, Mount: 457 × 355 mm. (18 × 14 in.)
Sheet: 224 × 151 mm. (8 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1948.54.9
Saidie A. May, Baltimore
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," February 27 - April 29, 1990.
National Academy of Design, New York, "Surrealism in America," February 17, 2005 - May 8, 2005; tour to Phoenix Art Museum June 5 - September 25, 2005.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler, 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 52j, pp.23.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction," May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Oliver Shell (BMA) and Oliver Tostmann (Wadsworth), BMA, "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s," circulated to Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, 20 October 2018 - 13 January 2019; Baltimore Museum of Art, 24 February - 26 May 2019; Frist Art Museum, 21 June - 29 September 2019.
National Academy of Design, New York, "Surrealism in America," February 17, 2005 - May 8, 2005; tour to Phoenix Art Museum June 5 - September 25, 2005.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler, 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 52j, pp.23.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction," May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Oliver Shell (BMA) and Oliver Tostmann (Wadsworth), BMA, "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s," circulated to Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, 20 October 2018 - 13 January 2019; Baltimore Museum of Art, 24 February - 26 May 2019; Frist Art Museum, 21 June - 29 September 2019.
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from The Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May, and Blanche Adler,"Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2002.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: On secondary support: LRE: [artist signature} 'Motherwell'
Artist
Robert Motherwell
1914–1990
born Aberdeen, WA 1915; died Provincetown, MA 1991
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