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Original works by Robert Motherwell available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Robert Motherwell
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A la pintura (To Painting)
Robert Motherwell at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70, 1961 (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works by Robert Motherwell online
Robert Motherwell at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Robert Motherwell
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Motherwell
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Personage (Autoportrait), 1943
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Personage (Autoportrait), 1943
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Elegy to the Spanish Republic #34, 1953-54
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
4 works online
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Summer Time In Italy
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Untitled
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
2 works online
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Africa 2
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Je t'aime No. VIII (Mallarmé's Swan: Homage), 1957
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #28
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Fishes with Red Stripe
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Summer Light Series: Pauillac, #1, 1973
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Robert Motherwell in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Wall Painting No.III, 1953
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Automatism Elegy, 1980
Robert Motherwell at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Africa Suite: Africa 3, 1970
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Africa Suite No. 4
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Basque Suite No. 13
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California NEW!
The Big 4, 1986
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish) 
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Atavistic Presence
Hotel Flora
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Robert Motherwell at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Figure Before Blackness
Swope Art Museum, Indiana
Caprice # 4, 1962
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Untitled (Black and Orange), from The Basque Suite, 1970-71
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
A total of 12 works can be selected from the drop-down list
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Blue/Green
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Robert Motherwell Collection: 1941-1990 (11 works online)
PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series
Repository of Abstract Art
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Robert Motherwell 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Robert Motherwell at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1971 interview from the Oral History project (with sound clip)
Time Magazine
"A Sense of Exuberance", 1972 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Master of Anxiety and Balance: The magisterial abstractions of Robert Motherwell", 1983 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Paris' Prodigal Son Returns", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Robert Motherwell
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The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
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The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
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Robert Motherwell
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Robert Motherwell On Paper
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