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List of Exhibitions (Part 2): 1970–1987
Jack Flam (Editor), Katy Rogers (Editor), Tim Clifford (Editor)
Description: Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages (A Catalogue Raisonné,...
Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages (A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991)
List of Exhibitions (Part 2)
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Jack Flam (Editor), Katy Rogers (Editor), Tim Clifford (Editor)
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List of Exhibitions (Part 2): 1970–1987
1970
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H., Paintings and Collages by Robert Motherwell, February 4–28, 1970 (catalogue). See P65, P281, P336, P374, P399, P401, P409, P478, P487, P491, P493, P499, P541, P542, C138, C139, C157, C168, C222, W150, W164, W196, W220.
Robert Motherwell at St. Paul’s School: On the Humanism of Abstraction (includes artist’s statements). Introduction by Thomas R. Barrett. Concord, N.H.: St. Paul’s School, 1970.
 
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, March 9–27, 1970; University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 22–May 20, 1970; Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, August 1–September 15, 1970; Reed College, Portland, Ore., September 16–October 9, 1970 (checklist). See P440, C181, C205, C206, C223, C227, C231, C232, C237, C241, C243, C245, C248, C249, C252, C253, C261, C262, W283–W285, W291, W292, W295, W296.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Robert Motherwell, December 5, 1970–January 5, 1971. See P463, P464, P475, P483, P486, P494, P508, P559, P561, P564, P565, P570, P571, P843. Reviewed in Kritzwiser 1970 and Russell 1970.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, Trends in Twentieth Century Art: A Loan Exhibition from the San Francisco Museum of Art, January 6–February 1, 1970 (catalogue). See P334.
Story, Ala. Trends in Twentieth Century Art: A Loan Exhibition from the San Francisco Museum of Art. Santa Barbara: University of California, 1970.
 
School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery, Boston University, American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties: Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts Centennial Exhibition, February 6–March 14, 1970 (catalogue). See P504.
Arnason, H. H. American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties: Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts Centennial Exhibition. Boston: Boston University, 1970.
 
Drawing Society National Exhibition, 1970 (organized by the Drawing Society, New York; circulated by the American Federation of Arts, New York), Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, New York, March 10–May 9, 1970; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 25–November 1, 1970; Shreveport Art Guild, La., November 22–December 13, 1970; Finch College, New York, January 12–31, 1971; Canton Art Institute, Ohio, February 14–March 7, 1971; Indianapolis Museum of Art, March 28–April 18, 1971; Municipal Arts Department, Los Angeles, May 9–30, 1971; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 20–July 11, 1971; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Mo., August 1–22, 1971; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Tex., September 12–October 3, 1971; College of Wooster, Ohio, January 16–February 6, 1972; Philadelphia Civic Center, February 27–March 19, 1972; E. H. Little Gallery, Memphis State University, April 9–30, 1972; Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fla., May 21–June 11, 1972; Portland Art Museum, Ore., July 2–30, 1972; Central Louisiana Art Association, Alexandria, September 24–October 15, 1972 (catalogue). See W290.
Drawing Society National Exhibition, 1970 (includes artist’s statements). Introduction by James Biddle. New York: Drawing Society, 1970.
 
Waddington Galleries, London, Works on Paper, March 10–April 4, 1970 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Works on Paper. London: Waddington Galleries, 1970.
 
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, The American Scene, 1900–1970, April 6–May 17, 1970 (catalogue). See P47.
Solley, Thomas T., and Henry Radford Hope. The American Scene, 1900–1970. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1970.
 
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., The Recent Years, April 12–May 24, 1970 (catalogue). See W190.
The Recent Years. Introduction by Kathryn E. Gamble. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1970.
 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, American Painting, 1970, May 4–June 7, 1970 (catalogue). See P503.
Seitz, Peter. American Painting, 1970. Introduction by James M. Brown. Richmond: Virginia Museum, 1970.
 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Peace, May 19–June 21, 1970. See P414.
 
Art Gallery, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, May 27–June 21, 1970 (catalogue). See P397, P447, P458, P459, P491, C239.
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards. New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters; National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1970.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Recent Acquisitions, June 9–July 19, 1970 (permanent collection exhibition). See P422, P489.
 
San Francisco Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Collects, July 11–August 30, 1970 (catalogue). See P173.
Santa Barbara Collects. Introduction by Gerald Nordland. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1970.
 
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L’Art vivant aux États-Unis, July 16–September 30, 1970 (catalogue). See P504, C230, W252.
L’art vivant aux États-Unis (text in French). Introduction by Dore Ashton. Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France: Fondation Maeght, 1970.
 
Provincetown Art Association, Mass., Third 1970 Exhibition, August 11–September 7, 1970 (checklist). See P532.
 
Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, 3. Internationale der Zeichnung, August 15–November 11, 1970 (catalogue). See W289, W302. Unidentified: 371. Untitled.
3. Internationale der Zeichnung (text in German). Darmstadt: Institut Mathildenhöhe, 1970.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Color and Field, 1890–1970, September 15–November 1, 1970; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, November 20, 1970–January 10, 1971; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 4–March 28, 1971 (catalogue). See P416, P461.
Color and Field, 1890–1970. Introduction by Priscilla Colt. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1970.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, The Opening, September 19–October 10, 1970 (catalogue). See P553. Reviewed in Fenton 1970–71.
The Opening. Toronto: David Mirvish Gallery, 1970.
 
Western Illinois University, Macomb, [loan exhibition], November 6–December 4, 1970. See C50.
 
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Against Order: Chance and Art, November 14–December 22, 1970 (catalogue). See P224.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. Against Order: Chance and Art. Foreword by Stephen S. Prokopoff. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
 
1971
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Galerie im Erker, St. Gall, Switzerland, Robert Motherwell: Bilder und Collagen, 1967–1970, June 21–August 28, 1971; Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, September 15–October 13, 1971; the exhibition catalogue erroneously dates the exhibition as shown in 1970 (venue catalogues). See P269, P433, P451, P474, P522, P529, P532, P537, P538, P582, P583, P587, P597, P998, P1194, C181, C206, C207, C243, C245, C246, C252, C253, C262. Reviewed in Das Kunstwerk 1971, H. 1971, Hernandez 1971, and I. 1971.
Robert Motherwell: Bilder und Collagen, 1967–1970 (includes artist’s statements). Poem by Octavio Paz; essays by Bryan Robertson and Robert Motherwell. St. Gall, Switzerland: Galerie im Erker, 1971; an alternative version of this catalogue was printed for the Kunstverein Freiburg venue.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Recent Acquisitions: Americans, February 26–March 11, 1971 (permanent collection exhibition; checklist). See P414.
 
Boston City Hall, The New York School: Selections from the Graham Gund Collection, March 18–April 24, 1971. See P419.
 
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Seven Loans from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection, May 8–June 20, 1971. See P176.
 
Bronx County Courthouse Museum, N.Y., Paintings from the Metropolitan, May 12–June 13, 1971 (checklist). See P430.
 
French & Company, New York, Contemporary American Drawings, May 15–June 23, 1971. Works unknown.
 
Tacoma Art Museum, Wash., [inaugural exhibition], May 25–[June 30], 1971 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P573.
Tacoma Art Museum: May 25, 1971. Foreword by Jon W. Kowalek. Tacoma, Wash.: Tacoma Art Museum, 1971.
 
Stanford University Art Museum, Palo Alto, Calif., A Decade in the West: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphics from the Anderson Collection, June 12–August 22, 1971; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., September 10–October 10, 1971 (catalogue). See P253.
A Decade in the West: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphics from the Anderson Collection. Introduction by Albert E. Elsen. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Museum of Art, 1971.
 
Galerie Beyeler, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, America, June 24–29, 1971 (catalogue). See P31, P192. Unidentified: 19. Composition.
America. Basel, Switzerland: Galerie Beyeler, 1971.
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Artist as Adversary, July 1–September 27, 1971 (catalogue). See P215, C7.
The Artist as Adversary (includes artist’s statements). Introduction by Betsy Jones. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971.
 
Tyler Museum of Art, Tex., Paintings of the Sixties, August 8–September 16, 1971. See P210.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Group Show, August 14–September 14, 1971. See P571.
 
Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Selection from the Ménil Collection, September 24, 1971–April 30, 1972 (catalogue). See P431.
Selection from the Ménil Collection. Foreword by Dominique de Ménil. Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1972.
 
Art Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., Collages by American Artists, October 1971 (catalogue). See C194.
Collages by American Artists. Muncie, Ind.: Ball State University, 1971.
 
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Collectors, October 5–December 5, 1971. See C66.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 5–31, 1971 (permanent collection exhibition). See P489.
 
Boston Center for the Arts, New England Art/Painting and Sculpture Invitational Show, October 24–November 6, 1971 (catalogue). See P529.
New England Art/Painting and Sculpture Invitational Show. Boston: Boston Center for the Arts, 1971.
 
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Owned by New Orleanians, November 14, 1971–January 9, 1972 (catalogue). Drawings only.
New Orleans Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Owned by New Orleanians. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1971.
 
1972
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings, June 15–August 6, 1972 (catalogue). See P615, P616, P618–P620, P622, P627, P632–P636, P647, P648, P914, P1071. Reviewed in Close 1972a, Close 1972b, D[avis] 1972, Hughes 1972, Minneapolis Star 1972, and Steele 1972.
Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings (includes artist’s statements). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1972.
 
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, Robert Motherwell, October 21–November 8, 1972 (checklist). See P611, P662, P664, P670–P672, P676, P677, P679. Reviewed in Masheck 1973 and Siegel 1972.
 
Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C., Robert Motherwell, November 8–December 9, 1972 (checklist). See P623, P624, P680, P681, W315, W316, W327, W338, W365, W367, W371. Unidentified: [3]. Untitled (Open), “litho and acrylic on paper.” Reviewed in Allen 1972.
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 15, 1972–January 14, 1973; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 6–25, 1973; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., March 14–April 22, 1973; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 10–June 24, 1973 (catalogue). See C7, C11, C16, C17, C20, C22, C23, C46, C49, C50, C58, C66, C67, C69, C82, C89, C94, C104, C105, C108, C124, C126, C129, C136, C150, C179, C205, C220, C238, C239, C248, C252, C253, C259, C262, C264, C277, C281, C296, C319, C367. Reviewed in Apollo 1972, Baker 1973, Freed 1972, Holmes 1972, Patton 1973, and Supplément a la Gazette des Beaux Arts 1973.
Carmean, E. A., Jr. The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition. Introduction by Philippe de Montebello. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1972.
 
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, December 12, 1972–January 6, 1973. See P439, P456, P459, P638, P653, P669, P674, C291, C294, C301, C304, C310, W366, W390, W391.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., Selections from the Betty Parsons’ Collection, January 16–February 27, 1972 (brochure). See P41.
Selections from the Betty Parsons’ Collection. Foreword by Kathryn E. Gamble. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1972.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Abstract Expressionism: The First and Second Generations in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, January 19–February 20, 1972 (catalogue). See P156.
Abstract Expressionism: The First and Second Generations in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1972.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Free Form Abstraction, February 26–April 9, 1972 (permanent collection exhibition). See C104, C105.
 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Very Small Paintings, Objects, Works on Paper, March 15–April 20, 1972; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, April 23–June 18, 1972; Indianapolis Museum of Art, August 29–October 1, 1972; Art History Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, October 15–November 26, 1972; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, December 11, 1972–January 14, 1973; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, February 2–28, 1973; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, March 11–April 15, 1973; Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Ind., April 25–July 1, 1973; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, November 25, 1973–January 6, 1974 (catalogue). See P202, W250.
Very Small Paintings, Objects, Works on Paper. Introduction by Ulfert Wilke. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1972.
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, A Salute to the Contemporary Arts Museum: 20th Century Art from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 17–April 16, 1972. See P431.
 
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, American Action Painting, April 1972; Galleria Morone, Milan, 1972 (exact dates unknown; venue catalogues). See P633, C204, W289.
Rosenberg, Harold. American Action Painting (text in Italian). Rome: Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, 1972.
Galleria Morone. Scuola di New York (text in Italian). Milan: Galleria Morone, 1972.
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Abstract Painting in the 70’s: A Selection, April 14–May 21, 1972 (catalogue). See P465, P553, P571, P592, P619. Reviewed in Elderfield 1972.
Abstract Painting in the 70’s: A Selection. Introduction by Kenworth Moffett. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1972.
 
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Modern Image, April 15–June 11, 1972 (catalogue). See P350.
The Modern Image. Foreword by Gudmund Vigtel; essay by John Howett and Karl Nickel. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1972.
 
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Patrimony Exhibition: International Artists, April 18–June 6, 1972 (permanent collection exhibition). See P99.
 
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., American Art at Harvard, April 19–June 18, 1972 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See C49.
American Art at Harvard. Entry “Robert Motherwell,” by Harry Z. Rand. Cambridge, Mass.: Fogg Art Museum, 1972.
 
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada, Masters of the Sixties (organized by the Edmonton Art Gallery and the David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto), May 4–June 4, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, June 15–July 15, 1972 (catalogue). See P463, P464. Reviewed in Marshall 1972.
Masters of the Sixties. Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery; Toronto: David Mirvish Gallery, 1972.
 
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Welt Kulturen und Moderne Kunst: Die Begegnung der europäischen Kunst und Musik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert mit Asien, Afrika, Ozeanien, Afro- und Indo-Amerika (organized by the Olympic Organizing Committee for the XX Olympic Games in Munich), June 16–September 30, 1972 (catalogue). See P607.
Wichmann, Hans. “Formen aus Japan—europäische Produktformen.” In Welt Kulturen und Moderne Kunst: Die Begegnung der europäischen Kunst und Musik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert mit Asien, Afrika, Ozeanien, Afro- und Indo-Amerika (text in German). Munich: Verlag Bruckmann, 1972.
 
Art Institute of Chicago, Seventieth American Exhibition, June 24–August 20, 1972 (catalogue). See P565, P571.
Seventieth American Exhibition. Preface by C. C. Cunningham; introduction by A. James Speyer. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.
 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, July 11–August 20, 1972 (catalogue). See C10, W140, W165.
Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art. Introduction by Edward B. Henning. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.
 
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif., Post 1950 Paintings, July 25–September 3, 1972. See P229.
 
Artmobile Exhibition, Encounter II: Color, September 1972–February 1974; traveling exhibition to various venues. See W210.
 
Baltimore Museum of Art, Works from the Saidie A. May Collection, September 5–October 22, 1972; the exhibition catalogue doubled as the Baltimore Museum of Art Record 3, no. 1 (1972) (catalogue). See C3.
Saidie A. May Collection. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1972.
 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Art since 1945: A Loan Exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art, September 15–October 22, 1972 (catalogue). See P215.
American Art since 1945: A Loan Exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1972.
 
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, Twentieth Century Masters, September 30–November 2, 1972 (catalogue). See C16, C17. Reviewed in Kramer 1972b.
Twentieth Century Masters. New York: Robert Elkon Gallery, 1972.
 
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif., Post 1945 Paintings, October 17, 1972–January 21, 1973. See P229.
 
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Inside Philadelphia: Selections from Private Collections, November 11–December 19, 1972 (catalogue). See P12.
Inside Philadelphia: Selections from Private Collections. Introduction by Suzanne Delehanty. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.
 
Michener Galleries, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, November 22, 1972–March 1, 1973. See P210.
 
1973
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Art Museum, Princeton University, N.J., Robert Motherwell: Recent Work, January 5–February 17, 1973 (catalogue). See P3, P84, P85, P177, P353, P397, P417, P426, P432, P442, P452, P457, P458, P496, P522, P532, P534, P541, P542, P586, P587, P608, P618, P650, P659, P673, P683–P686, P843, C51, C75, C157, C168, C190, C272, C274, C275, C295, C311, C313, C320, C329, C330, C337, C338, C341, C349, C352, C354, C356, C366, W10, W64, W273–W277, W362, W363, W374, W377–W379, W382, W388. Reviewed in Friend 1973, Kramer 1973b, and Morrin 1973.
Robert Motherwell: Recent Work (includes artist’s statements). Introduction by Sam Hunter; essays by Harry B. Titus, Peter S. Rohowsky, and Deborah P. Strom. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1973.
 
Current Editions, Seattle, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, Including the Illuminations for A La Pintura, March 24–April 29, 1973. See C315, C317, C320, C331, C332, C334, C338, C341, C356, C358, C359, C366, W318, W319, W321–W323.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Robert Motherwell: New Works, March 24–April 21, 1973. See P606, C145, C147, C148, C151, C207, C223, C224, C232, C233, C243, C247, C254, C257, C272, C274, C275, C278–C280, C292, C297, C305, C309, C312, C322, C362, C365, C368. Reviewed in Marshall 1973.
 
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages & Drawings, March 28–May 5, 1973 (checklist). See P442, P451, P457, P484, P487, P495, P496, P559, P587, P591, P597, P612, P843, C75, C261, C295, C311, C329, C330, C337, C350, C355, W292, W295, W296.
 
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Robert Motherwell: Recent Sketches and Graphics, August 3–9, 1973. See C393, C418, W317, W320, W327, W373, W375, W382, W384, W387, W398, W400, W403. Unidentified: two untitled works. Reviewed in Advocate Summery 1973.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, January 10–March 18, 1973 (catalogue). See P679.
1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art. Foreword by John I. H. Baur. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973.
 
Baltimore Museum of Art, Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, January 16–February 25, 1973. See P198, C68.
 
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., The Harold and May Rosenberg Collection, February 4–March 25, 1973 (catalogue). See P70, P73.
The Harold and May Rosenberg Collection. Foreword by Kathryn E. Gamble. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1973.
 
National Academy of Design, New York, 148th Annual Exhibition, February 24–March 18, 1973. See C293.
 
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Calif., Kurt Schwitters and Related Developments, March 10–May 6, 1973. See C156, C169. Reviewed in Winer 1973.
 
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, [group exhibition], March [15]–31, 1973. See P705. Reviewed in Stitelman 1973.
 
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, April 5–May 6, 1973 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Marandel, J. Patrice. Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art. Foreword by Stephen E. Ostrow. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1973.
 
Art Gallery, University of California at Riverside, Art and Marriage: An Exhibition of Husband and Wife Artists of the Twentieth Century, May 7–31, 1973 (catalogue). See P50, C32, W25, W116.
Terbell, Melinda. Art and Marriage: An Exhibition of Husband and Wife Artists of the Twentieth Century. Riverside, Calif.: Art Gallery, University of California at Riverside, 1973.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Drawings, 1963–1973, May 25–July 22, 1973 (catalogue). See W290, W293.
Solomon, Elke M. American Drawings, 1963–1973. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973.
 
Provincetown Art Association, Mass., [group exhibition], summer 1973. Unidentified: “grey gauloises collage.”
 
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., Greater Hartford Civic and Arts Festival, June 1–10, 1973. Unidentified: 9 April 1973.
 
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, June 22–September 30, 1973; Finch College Museum of Art, New York, October 16–November 25, 1973; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, January 8–February 10, 1974 (catalogue). Drawings only.
The Private Collection of Martha Jackson. Preface by Adelyn Breeskin; foreword by David Anderson; introduction by Elayne H. Varian. Baltimore: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1973.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1950–1973, July 4–August 26, 1973 (permanent collection exhibition). See P422.
 
Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, American Art: Third Quarter Century, August 22–October 14, 1973 (catalogue). See P677.
Marck, Jan van der. American Art: Third Quarter Century. Seattle: Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, 1973.
 
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, September 5–October 14, 1973; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., October 26–December 3, 1973; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 14, 1973–January 25, 1974 (catalogue). See W153.
Robinson, Franklin W. One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections. Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1973.
 
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Mass., Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Mandelbaum, September 8–October 9, 1973 (catalogue). See C199.
Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Mandelbaum. Introduction by Jean Harris. South Hadley, Mass.: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1973.
 
San Francisco Museum of Art, Selection of American and European Paintings from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, September 14–November 11, 1973; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December 7, 1973–January 27, 1974 (catalogue). See C38.
A Selection of American and European Paintings from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973.
 
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, Modern Master Drawings, September 25–October 13, 1973. Drawings only. Reviewed in Henry 1973 and Mellow 1973.
 
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, The Albert Pilavin Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art II, October 23, 1973–November 25, 1973 (catalogue). See P351.
Marandel, J. Patrice. The Albert Pilavin Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art II. Introduction by Stephen E. Ostrow. Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1973.
 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Art at Mid-Century 1, October 28, 1973–January 6, 1974 (catalogue). See P164. Reviewed in Canaday 1973.
American Art at Mid-Century 1. Introduction by William C. Seitz. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1973.
 
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 11 Artistes Americains, November 4–December 2, 1973 (catalogue). See P463, P494, P553. Reviewed in Bates 1973.
11 Artistes Americains (text in French). Essay by Fernande Saint-Martin. Montreal: Musée d’Art Contemporain, 1973.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the Permanent Collection, November 28, 1973–February 4, 1974 (permanent collection exhibition). See P422.
 
1974
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, Robert Motherwell: Paintings & Collages, January 12–February 16, 1974 (catalogue). See P497, P561, P659, P714, P715, P718, P728, P730, P739, P766, P913, C273, C300, C316, C341, C374. Reviewed in Holmes 1974.
Robert Motherwell: Paintings & Collages. Introduction by E. A. Carmean Jr. Houston: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1974.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Robert Motherwell: “A la Pintura” and Four Related Paintings, March 1–May 26, 1974. See P463, P503. Unidentified: two paintings.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings and Collages, April 6–25, 1974 (checklist). See P650, P673, P713, P764, C306, C315, C404, C405, C409, C410, C423, C425, C427, C430–C432, C606, C643. Reviewed in Herrera 1974, Hess 1974, and Kramer 1974a.
 
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio, [solo exhibition], May 1974. See P609, C295, C337, C443.
 
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Robert Motherwell: New Paintings, Collages, and Graphics, October 12–November 16, 1974 (catalogue). See P481, P660, P726, P744, P752, P768, C171, C311, C320, C391, C400, C413, C429, C435, C449, C452, C456, C460.
Robert Motherwell: New Paintings, Collages, and Graphics (text in English and German). Zurich: Galerie André Emmerich, 1974.
 
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Robert Motherwell in California Collections, November 26, 1974–January 12, 1975 (catalogue). See P18, P50, P53, P54, P105, P148, P176, P229, P360, P408, C32, C69, C198, C350, C408, C447, C453, C454, W48, W72, W73, W116. Reviewed in Seldis 1974b.
Wagener, Richard. Robert Motherwell in California Collections (includes artist’s statements). Contributions by Melinda Wortz, Emerson Woelffer, Peter Clothier, Gifford Phillips, and Joann Phillips. Los Angeles: Otis Art Institute, 1974.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Mo., Contemporary American Colorfield Painting, 1974 (exact dates unknown). See P442.
 
Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, 5 American Painters: Recent Work, January 8–February 17, 1974 (catalogue). See P431, P442, P487, P573, P587, P672. Reviewed in Seldis 1974a.
5 American Painters: Recent Work. Foreword by Phyllis Plous. Santa Barbara: Art Galleries, University of California, 1974.
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960 to 1970, January 15–March 10, 1974 (catalogue). See P416, P506.
Carmean, E. A., Jr. The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960 to 1970. Introduction by Philippe de Montebello. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1974.
 
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., Master Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Yale University Art Gallery, February 2–March 3, 1974 (catalogue). See C126.
Master Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Yale University Art Gallery. Foreword by John Gordon; introduction by Alan Shestack. Palm Beach, Fla.: Society of Four Arts, 1974.
 
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Collection: Brazilian and International Artists, February 6–April 29, 1974 (permanent collection exhibition). See P99.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 10 Years Ago … An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from 1964, February 9–March 6, 1974. See C151.
 
Pace Gallery, New York, Selected American Painters of the Fifties, February 9–March 19, 1974. See P177, C71.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Frank O’Hara, a Poet among Painters, February 12–March 17, 1974 (catalogue). See C104, C105. Reviewed in Kramer 1974b and Schjeldahl 1974.
Frank O’Hara, a Poet among Painters. Foreword by Richard Armstrong, Hope Davis, Mary C. Foster, Elizabeth King, Michael R. Klein, and Bill Zimmer. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974.
 
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif., [Permanent and loan exhibition], April 5–21, 1974. See P229.
 
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Conn., Selections from the Albert Pilavin Collection of 20th Century American Art, April [7]–May [12], 1974. See P351.
 
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Calif., Monumental Paintings of the Sixties, April 19–June 16, 1974 (catalogue). See P408.
Monumental Paintings of the Sixties. Introduction by Henry G. Gardiner. San Diego, Calif.: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1974.
 
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, America on Paper, May–June 1974 (catalogue). See C281.
America on Paper. Basel, Switzerland: Galerie Beyeler, 1974.
 
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting & Sculpture Today, 1974, May 22–July 14, 1974; Taft Museum, Cincinnati, September 12–October 26, 1974. See C372.
Painting & Sculpture Today, 1974. Indianapolis: Contemporary Art Society of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1974.
 
Dallas Museum of Art, The Meadows Collection, June 5–July 7, 1974. See P358.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, American Art in Upstate New York: Drawings, Watercolors, and Small Sculpture from Public Collections in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica, July 12–August 25, 1974; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, N.Y., September 10–October 13, 1974; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., October 22–November 24, 1974; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y., December 5, 1974–January 12, 1975; Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N.Y., January 26–March 2, 1975; Albany Institute of History and Art, March 14–April 27, 1975 (catalogue). Drawings only.
American Art in Upstate New York: Drawings, Watercolors, and Small Sculpture from Public Collections in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1974.
 
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., 10 Modern Masters, August 16–22, 1974. Works unknown.
 
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Paintings, Watercolors & Sculpture: Goode, Francis, Frankenthaler, Holland, Kelly, Moses, Motherwell, Oldenburg, Olitski, Poons, Rickey, Rueda, Stella, Thiebaud, Twombly, Westermann, and Wiley, August 21–September 14, 1974. Works unknown.
 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Accessions 1973, September 8–October 31, 1974 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P851.
Accessions 1974. Foreword by Ulfert Wilke. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1974.
 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Twelve American Painters, September 30–October 27, 1974 (catalogue). See P673, P699, P702, C317, C423, C444.
Gaines, William. Twelve American Painters. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1974.
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Inaugural Exhibition, October 1, 1974–September 15, 1975 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P170, W5. Reviewed in Raynor 1974a.
Nochlin, Linda, Alfred Frankenstein, John I. H. Baur, Irving Sandler, and Dore Ashton. The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Edited with an introduction by Abram Lerner; foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974.
 
Musée Galliera, Paris, L’Art au présent, October 2–November 10, 1974; shown as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris (catalogue). See P772, W282.
L’Art au présent (includes artist’s statements; text in French). Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 1974.
 
William Zierler, New York, American Works on Paper, 1944 to 1974, November 2–30, 1974 (catalogue). See C75.
American Works on Paper, 1944 to 1974. New York: William Zierler, 1974.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Small Paintings, November 7–30, 1974. See P587.
 
Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, The Christmas Show, [December] 1974. Works unknown.
 
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Surrealität—Bildrealität, 1924–1974: In den unzähligen Bildern des Lebens, December 8, 1974–February 2, 1975; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, February 14–April 13, 1975 (catalogue). See P673, C122.
Harten, Jürgen. Surrealität—Bildrealität, 1924–1974: In den unzähligen Bildern des Lebens (text in German). Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1974.
 
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, [group exhibition], December 11, 1974–January 11, 1975. See P802, C401, C486.
 
1975
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings and Collages, January 4–February 1, 1975 (checklist). See P769, P771, P789, P790, P804, P806, P808, C464, C472, C484, C485, C493, C498, C500. Reviewed in Ellenzweig 1975, Kaplan 1975, Kramer 1975, New York Newsday 1975, Ratcliff 1975, and Schjeldahl 1975.
 
Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, Robert Motherwell: Selected Prints and Collages, February 1–26, 1975. Works unknown.
 
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Robert Motherwell: Retrospectiva del gran pintor Norteamericano, March 19–May 1975 (catalogue). See P3, P84, P157, P182, P208, P216, P222–P224, P277, P455, P497, P647, P713, P720, P741, P795, P800, P801, C11, C20, C49, C66, C75, C104, C105, C261, C427, C495, W101, W127, W374, W384, W468. Reviewed in Acha 1975.
Ashton, Dore. Robert Motherwell: Retrospectiva del gran pintor Norteamericano (text in Spanish). Introduction by Fernando Gamboa; poem by Octavio Paz. Mexico City: Museo de Arte Moderno, 1975.
 
Glenn/Smith Gallery, Newport Beach, Calif., Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Drawings, Collages, and Selected Fine Prints, March 22–April 30, 1975. Works unknown.
 
Waddington Galleries, London, Robert Motherwell: Collages and Graphics, April 8–May 3, 1975 (catalogue). See P803, C173, C371, C436, C444, C448, C465, C469, C489, C493, C510, C747.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Robert Motherwell, April 12–May 7, 1975. See P793, C364, C451, C471, C473, C490–C492, C497, C505, C745. Reviewed in Perry 1975.
 
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Robert Motherwell: Recent Collages & Drawings/Selected Prints, 1961–1975, May 21–June 25, 1975 (catalogue). See C330, C389, C417, C437, C517, C588, C742. Reviewed in Albright 1975, Campbell 1975, and Dunham 1975.
 
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, Robert Motherwell: Major Paintings & Collages, [July]–August 23, 1975 (checklist). See P722, P723, P738, P741, P779, P808, P813, P814, P982, C439, C474–C476, C516, C519, C523. Reviewed in Seldis 1975.
 
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Tex., Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, and Prints, September 19–October 19, 1975 (checklist). See P442, P714, P715, P718, P728, P730, P766, P913, C273, C300, C341, C374, C409, C447.
 
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, Drawings, November 8, 1975–January 8, 1976 (checklist). See P678, P695, P725, P781, P786, P807, P827, P832, C420, C467, C516, C529, C688, W469, W471, W472. Reviewed in Colby 1975 and Miro 1975.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Denver Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art since 1960, February 1–March 16, 1975 (catalogue). See P619.
Chambers, Marlene. The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art since 1960. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1975.
 
Southeastern Massachusetts University Gallery, North Dartmouth, A Selected Exhibition from the Collection of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, Milwaukee, February 8–March 3, 1975 (catalogue). See W205, W208.
Feingold, Arnold, ed. A Selected Exhibition from the Collection of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, Milwaukee. Essay by Evan R. Firestone. North Dartmouth: Southern Massachusetts University, 1975.
 
Tampere Art Museum, Finland, Collection of Didrichsen Art Museum, February 9–March 12, 1975. See W199.
 
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, February 22–April 6, 1975 (catalogue). See P739. Reviewed in Forgey 1975.
34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting. Introduction by Ray Slade. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1975.
 
Color (circulated by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Museo de Art Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia, February 24–March 30, 1975; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, April 18–May 18, 1975; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, June 12–July 20, 1975; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, August 3–September 4, 1975; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, October 2–November 23, 1975 [venue catalogues]. See P99, P751.
Color (text in Spanish; includes artist’s statements). Foreword by Fernando Gamboa; introduction by Kynaston McShine. Mexico City: Museo de Arte Moderno, 1975.
 
Steinberg Hall, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, A la Pintura, March 2–6, 1975 (catalogue). See P652, C19, C55. Reviewed in Duffy 1975.
A la Pintura. Foreword by Graham W. J. Beal. Saint Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1975.
 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, An Artist Collects: Ulfert Wilke; Selections from Five Continents, March 23–May 3, 1975 (catalogue). See P202, C91, W250.
Wilke, Ulfert. An Artist Collects: Ulfert Wilke; Selections from Five Continents. Foreword by William L. Boyd. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1975.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, Subjects of the Artist: New York Painting, 1941–1947, April 22–May 28, 1975 (catalogue). See P65, C22. Reviewed in Alloway 1975.
Subjects of the Artist: New York Painting, 1941–1947 (includes artist’s statements). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975.
 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Richard Brown Baker Collects! A Selection of Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, April 24–June 22, 1975 (catalogue). See C38.
Richard Brown Baker Collects! A Selection of Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1975.
 
Waco Creative Art Center, Tex., Abstract Painting and Sculpture Today, May 1975. See C374.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Drawing Exhibition, May 12–June 28, 1975. See C438, W148.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, [group exhibition], summer 1975. See C445.
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Modern Painting, 1900 to the Present, July 15–September 21, 1975 (checklist). See P21.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Abstract Art: A Survey from the Permanent Collection, July 24–October 26, 1975 (permanent collection exhibition). See P422.
 
Estudio Actual, Caracas, Venezuela, L’Art Vivant, September 1975. See C281.
 
Galerie Allen, Vancouver, American Masters of the 60s, September 6–October 9, 1975. Works unknown.
 
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, The Growing Spectrum of American Art, September 20–November 9, 1975 (catalogue). See P351.
Price, Vincent. The Growing Spectrum of American Art. Foreword by Harrison C. Taylor. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1975.
 
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Acquisitions, 1970–1975: A Selection of Works from the Gallery Collection, September 27–November 1, 1975. See P559.
 
American Art since 1945 from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (organized and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Worcester Art Museum, Mass., October 20–November 30, 1975; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, January 10–February 22, 1976; Denver Art Museum, March 22–May 2, 1976; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Calif., May 31–July 11, 1976; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, August 19–October 3, 1976; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, October 25–December 5, 1976; Greenville County Museum, S.C., January 8–February 20, 1977; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, March 14–April 17, 1977; Bronx Museum, N.Y., May 9–June 30, 1977 (catalogue). See P215.
Legg, Alicia. American Art since 1945 from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1975.
 
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Corporations Collect, October 25, 1975–January 4, 1976 (catalogue). See P363.
Pittsburgh Corporations Collect. Introduction by Leon A. Arkus. Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1975.
 
Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, Formative Years: Early Works by Prominent New York Artists, November 17–December 16, 1975. See P64.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, November 21, 1975–January 4, 1976 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). Drawings only.
Smith, Gordon M. The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Introduction by Robert T. Buck Jr.; foreword by Seymour H. Knox. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1975.
 
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, [group exhibition], winter 1975. See C295, C550.
 
Rizzoli Gallery, New York, Fashion as Fantasy, December 3, 1975–January 31, 1976. Drawings only.
 
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada, The Collective Unconscious: American and Canadian Art, 1940–1950, December 5, 1975–January 18, 1976 (catalogue). See P69, P84.
Wilkin, Karen. The Collective Unconscious: American and Canadian Art, 1940–1950. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975.
 
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., New York School: From the First Generation, December 5, 1975–January 5, 1976 (checklist). See C21, C49.
 
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, Works on Paper, December 6, 1975–January 6, 1976. See C483.
 
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, Small Works: Modern Masters, December 9, 1975–January 10, 1976. See W476. Reviewed in Lorber 1976.
 
1976
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings and Collages, January 10–February 11, 1976 (checklist). See P607, P805, P815, P816, P838, P876, C474, C503, C507, C512, C518, C530, C532, C538, C540, C567, W478. Reviewed in Andre 1976, Greenwich Time 1976a, Hoesterey 1976, Kramer 1976a, Perrone 1976a, and Ratcliff 1976.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Robert Motherwell, April 10–May 15, 1976. See P712, P804, P823, P834, P846, C330, C349, C369, C417, C437, C497, C501, C517, C526, C528, C588, W473, W482. Reviewed in Crossley 1976 and Moser 1976.
 
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Robert Motherwell, September 3–October 10, 1976; Galleriet Kulturhuset, Stockholm, November 12, 1976–January 9, 1977; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, March 8–April 11, 1977 (catalogue). See P3, P18, P47, P84, P88, P135, P177, P180, P182, P230, P353, P422, P429, P431, P590, P677, P685, P690, P719, P721, P722, P768, P769, P775, P776, P779, P780, P786, P805, P807, P838, P850, P860, C22, C49, C52, C58, C75, C104, C105, C121, C122, C124, C125, C129, C131, C220, C423, C428, C515, C530, C531, C551, C560, C567, C573, C575, W2, W10, W16, W19, W91, W104. Reviewed in Franzke 1977, Granath 1976, Haase 1976a, Haase 1976b, Jappe 1976, Romdahl 1976, Schmidt 1976, Sydhoff 1976, Trappschuh 1976, Westphal 1976, Winter 1976a, and Winter 1976b.
Harten, Jürgen, and Robert C. Hobbs. Robert Motherwell (text in English and German; includes artist’s statements). Düsseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1976.
 
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, Robert Motherwell: Recent Collages, October 3–November 3, 1976. See P791, C490, C492, C507, C520, W474. Reviewed in Johnson 1976.
 
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Recent Paintings and Collages by Robert Motherwell, November 5–December 8, 1976 (checklist). See P468, P541, P746, P806, P825, P832, P861, C291, C377, C471, C506, C545, C552, C563. Reviewed in Morrison 1976.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Buecker & Harpsichords, New York, 40 Years of American Collage, January 3–February 28, 1976. See C325.
 
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, Aspects of Postwar Painting in America (organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York), January 17–February 29, 1976; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Aspects of Postwar Painting in America: Acquisition Priorities, October 14, 1976–January 16, 1977 (venue catalogues). See P82, P220, P416, P607, P818.
Aspects of Postwar Painting in America. Preface by Thomas M. Messer. Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1976.
Aspects of Postwar Painting in America: Acquisition Priorities. Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1976.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 23–March 23, 1976; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, Amerikanische Zeichner des 20. Jahrhunderts: Drei Generationen von der Armory Show bis Heute, May 27–July 11, 1976; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, July 18–August 29, 1976 (venue catalogues). See C3, C23, C46, C124, C125, C434, W10, W129.
Waldman, Diane. Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations. Preface by Thomas M. Messer. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1976.
Amerikanische Zeichner des 20. Jahrhunderts: Drei Generationen von der Armory Show bis Heute (text in German). Foreword by Hans Albert Peters. Baden-Baden, Germany: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1976.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the Permanent Collection, January 28–February 16, 1976 (permanent collection exhibition). See P489.
 
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View; An Exhibition of Paintings from the Michener Collection, February 1–March 28, 1976 (catalogue). See P210.
Powell, Earl A., III. American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View; An Exhibition of Paintings from the Michener Collection. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1976.
 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, America Now, February 29–May 2, 1976. See P611.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776–1976 (organized by the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio), March 6–April 11, 1976; Detroit Institute of Arts, May 5–June 13, 1976; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, July 4–August 15, 1976; Cleveland Museum of Art, September 8–October 10, 1976 (catalogue). See P156.
Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776–1976. Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1976.
 
Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus, Abstract Expressionism: Works from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of Art, March 8–April 1, 1976 (catalogue). See C104, C105.
Abstract Expressionism: Works from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of Art. Miami: Miami-Dade Community College, 1976.
 
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Second Williams College Alumni Loan Exhibition: In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Williams College Museum of Art and Professor S. Lane Faison, Jr., April 1–24, 1976; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., May 9–June 13, 1976 (catalogue). See W153.
Second Williams College Alumni Loan Exhibition: In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Williams College Museum of Art and Professor S. Lane Faison, Jr. Introduction by S. Lane Faison Jr.; preface by William H. Alexander, James S. Deely, and Bernard Heineman Jr. Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College, 1976.
 
Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Critical Perspectives in American Art, April 10–May 9, 1976 (catalogue). See P806, C503, C512. Reviewed in Kramer 1976b.
Hunter, Sam, Rosalind Krauss, and Marcia Tucker. Critical Perspectives in American Art. Introduction by Hugh M. Davies. Amherst: Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Massachusetts, 1976.
 
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Calif., Paintings from the Max Zurier Collection, May 8–June 6, 1976. See P53, C69.
 
Katonah Gallery, N.Y., American Painting, 1900–1976, July 24–September 11, 1976; the artist’s work was shown in “Abstract Expressionism and Later Movements, 1955–1976,” part 3, section 2 of a three-part exhibition for the Katonah Gallery bicentennial celebration (catalogue). See P157.
Baur, John I. H. American Painting, 1900–1976. Foreword by Ellen R. Cabell. Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Gallery, 1976.
 
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., American Art from the Phillips Collection, Part 1, May 29–August 21, 1976 (permanent collection exhibition). See C90, C129.
 
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Autres Dimensions: Collages, Assemblages, Reliefs, June–September 1976 (catalogue). See C331, C487.
Autres Dimensions: Collages, Assemblages, Reliefs (text in French). Introduction by Andreas Franzke. Basel: Galerie Beyeler, 1976.
 
United States Pavilion, Venice, 37th Venice Biennial, 1976: Critical Perspectives in American Art, June 13–October 10, 1976 (catalogue). See P673.
Hunter, Sam, Marcia Tucker, and Rosalind Krauss. 37th Venice Biennial: Critical Perspectives in American Art (text in English and Italian). Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. [Venice]: [Bienale di Venezia], 1976.
 
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Three Decades of American Art Selected by the Whitney Museum, June 18–July 20, 1976 (catalogue). See P820, C415.
Three Decades of American Art Selected by the Whitney Museum (text in English and Japanese). Contributions by Thomas N. Armstrong III, James D. Hodgson, and Barbara Haskell. Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art, 1976.
 
Guild Hall of East Hampton, N.Y., Artists and East Hampton: A 100 Year Perspective; A Bicentennial Exhibition, August 14–October 3, 1976 (catalogue). See P64.
Braff, Phyllis. Artists and East Hampton: A 100 Year Perspective; A Bicentennial Exhibition. East Hampton, N.Y.: Guild Hall of East Hampton, 1976.
 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, American Master Drawings and Watercolors, September 2–October 24, 1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 23, 1976–January 23, 1977; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 20–April 17, 1977 (catalogue). See C11, C38, C126.
Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to Present. Contributions by John Caldwell and Carol Troyen. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
 
Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, Drawing Today in New York, September 2–23, 1976; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, October 8–November 19, 1976; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, January 10–February 16, 1977; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, March 1–April 1, 1977; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, April 15–May 15, 1977; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, June 3–August 21, 1977 (checklist). See W475. Reviewed in Gorney 1976–77.
 
Nationalgalerie Berlin, New York in Europa, September 4–November 7, 1976 (catalogue). See P161, P365.
Honisch, Dieter, and Jens Christian Jensen. Amerikanische Kunst von 1945 bis heute: Kunst der USA in europäischen sammlungen (text in German). Edited by Lucius Grisebach. Cologne, Germany: DuMont Buchverlag, 1976.
 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Action and Reaction: Contemporary Trends in Painting and Sculpture, September 12–October 24, 1976 (permanent collection exhibition). See P218.
 
Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, An Exhibit Beyond the Artist’s Hand: Explorations of Change, September 13–October 10, 1976 (catalogue). See C231, C235, C238.
An Exhibit Beyond the Artist’s Hand: Explorations of Change. Preface by Constance W. Glenn; essays by Frieda Kay Fall and Jan Butterfield. Entry “Motherwell,” by Mary Schoeser, pp. 16–17. Long Beach: Art Galleries, California State University, 1976.
 
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Inaugural Exhibition, Part II: Selections from the New York University Art Collection, September 22–October 16, 1976 [permanent collection exhibition; catalogue]. See C88.
 
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, Three Generations of American Painting: Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Edlich, September 23–October 30, 1976 (catalogue). See P420, P489, P678, P777, C489, C542, C568. Reviewed in Brown 1976, Perrone 1976b, Russell 1976a, and Zalkind 1976.
Hoffeld, Jeffrey. Three Generations of American Painting: Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Edlich. New York: Gruenebaum Gallery, in association with Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, 1976.
 
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., Creative Encounters: Gertrude Kasle Collection of Contemporary Art, October 2–November 14, 1976 (catalogue). See P669, P695, P781, C304, C467.
Creative Encounters: Gertrude Kasle Collection of Contemporary Art. Foreword by Robert Dearth; introduction by G. Stuart Hodge. Rochester, Mich.: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1976.
 
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, Twentieth Century Masters on Paper, October 2–November 3, 1976 (catalogue). See C51. Reviewed in Russell 1976b.
Twentieth Century Masters on Paper. New York: Robert Elkon Gallery, 1976.
 
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions USA, October 23–December 4, 1976 (catalogue). See C406.
New Accessions USA. Foreword by William Henning. Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1976.
 
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, Small Masterworks, December 7, 1976–January 6, 1977. See W476. Reviewed in Ellenzweig 1976.
 
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, Peinture, December 11, 1976–January 6, 1977. Works unknown.
 
Kunsthaus Zürich, The Museum of Drawers, 1976–present; exhibited at International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium, December 18, 1976–January 9, 1977; Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd, Predige, Switzerland, January 23–February 20, 1977; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, March 4–27, 1977; Kunsthaus Zürich, June 16–July 18, 1979; to additional unknown venues (catalogue). See P881.
Distel, Herbert. Tentoonstellingen (text in Dutch). Antwerp, Belgium: International Cultureel Centrum, 1977.
Distel, Herbert. Das Schubladenmuseum; Le Musée en Tiroirs; The Museum of Drawers (text in German, French, and English). Zurich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1978.
 
1977
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, April 2–May 24, 1977 (catalogue). See P457, P809, P829, P834, P836, P840, P886, P887, P909, P914, P915.
Robert Motherwell: Paintings (text in English and German). Zurich: Galerie André Emmerich, 1977.
 
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Robert Motherwell: Choix de peintures et collages, 1941–1977, June 21–September 20, 1977 (catalogue). See P3, P4, P69, P84, P88, P135, P177, P180, P182, P195, P212, P224, P230–P232, P242, P353, P378, P429, P431, P474, P480, P492, P496, P536, P562, P574, P596, P673, P677, P685, P690, P719, P721, P722, P744, P751, P769, P772, P775, P776, P779, P780, P786, P789, P794, P805, P807, P816, P819–P821, P838, P842–P846, P850, P856, P860, P862, P875, P877, P887, P902, P904, P905, P913, P915, P920–P922, P924, P925, C49, C52, C58, C71, C75, C78, C104, C105, C125, C129, C131, C139, C201, C216, C220, C258, C266, C277, C278, C371, C384, C401, C423, C428, C436, C504, C515, C528–C531, C541, C551, C560, C567, C569, C573, C575, C579, C583, C589, C592, C596, C606, W6, W10, W16, W19, W40, W91, W101, W104, W119, W160, W164, W167, W169, W343, W346–W348, W350, W514. Reviewed in Almansi 1977, Bouisset 1977, Breerette 1977, C. 1977, Kenedy 1977, Lecombre 1977, Lit Tout 1977, Plazy 1977, S[chulmann] 1977, Warnod 1977, and Wilson 1977b.
Robert Motherwell: Choix de peintures et collages, 1941–1977 (includes artist’s statements). Preface by Suzanne Pagé; essay by Marcelin Pleynet; poem by Octavio Paz. Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1977.
 
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, 1941–1977, October 14–November 20, 1977; selected works shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1977 (see separate entry). See P84, P88, P673, P719, P721, P769, P776, P779, P780, P805, P807, P816, P819–P821, P838, P842–P846, P875, C49, C131, C428, C515, C529, C567, C575, C583, C589, C592, C606, W19, W104, W160. Reviewed in Baillie 1977, Power 1977, Scottish Press 1977, and Shipway 1977.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Henry Gallery/Five Decades: The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1927–1977, February 11–March 13, 1977 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). Drawings only.
Grove, Richard, comp. Henry Gallery/Five Decades: The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1927–1977. Contributions by Susan Moseley, Carl F. Gould, Charlotte Stokes, and Martha Kingsbury. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery Association, 1977.
 
Admiral’s House, vice presidential residence, Washington, D.C., [loan exhibition], February 22, 1977–March 15, 1978. See C406. Reviewed in Cimons 1977 and Foreman 1977.
 
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, N.J., Surrealism and American Art, 1931–1947, March 5–April 24, 1977 (catalogue). See C46.
Weschler, Jeffrey. Surrealism and American Art, 1931–1947. Introduction by Jack J. Spector. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1976.
 
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Aspects of the Collage, March 10–31, 1977. See C578, C592.
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Acquisitions, 1974–1977, March 25–July 24, 1977 (permanent collection exhibition). See C459.
 
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y., Provincetown Painters, 1890’s–1970’s, April 1–June 26, 1977; Provincetown Art Association, Mass., August 15–September 5, 1977 (catalogue). See W260.
Kuchta, Ronald A., ed. Provincetown Painters, 1890’s–1970’s. Essay by Dorothy Gees Seckler. Syracuse, N.Y.: Everson Museum of Art, 1977.
 
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, April [13]–August [31], 1977 (permanent collection exhibition). See P101.
 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art since 1945, April 22–June 5, 1977 (catalogue). See P164, P334, P360, P408, C438, C536, C557. Reviewed in Frankenstein 1977.
Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art since 1945. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
 
Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Mass., Cape Cod as an Art Colony, April 30–October 16, 1977 (catalogue). See P559.
Cape Cod as an Art Colony. Sandwich, Mass.: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1977.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 30 Years of American Art: 1945–1975, May 6–July 24, 1977 (permanent collection exhibition). See P65.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, May 18–June [30], 1977. See P823.
 
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Paris—New York, June 1–September 19, 1977 (catalogue). See P87, C22, C124.
Hulten, Pontus, Robert Bordaz, Elliott Carter, et al. Paris—New York (text in French; includes artist’s statements). Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1977.
 
Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany, André Emmerich bei Brusberg, June 5–August 6, 1977 (checklist). See P834, C413, C449, C452, C460, C523.
 
Davis and Long Company, New York, American Collage, June 6–July 1, 1977. See C174.
 
Oak Room, Campus Center, Fairfield University, Conn., Oak Room Exhibition, 15th Annual Fairfield Festival of the Arts, June 8–10, 1977. Works unknown.
 
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Collectors Collect Contemporary: A Selection from Boston Collections, June 22–September 4, 1977. See C150.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Group Exhibition, June 28–July 9, 1977. Unidentified: Bird Study.
 
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Large-Scale Paintings, July 9–August 3, 1977. See P606.
 
Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, American Drawing, 1927–1977, September 6–October 29, 1977; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, January 6–February 6, 1978; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., April 11–May 14, 1978; National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, June 4–July 1, 1978; Fine Arts Museum, Bordeaux, France, September 15–October 20, 1978; Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Campus of Complutense University, Madrid, November 2–December 3, 1978; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, January 14–February 4, 1979; Museo Municipal de Artes Graficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela, February 11–March 3, 1979; Galerie de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 5–19, 1979; Museum of Arts and Sciences, National Autonomous University, Mexico City, May 4–21, 1979; Municipal Museum, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 3–17, 1979 (catalogue). See W461.
Cummings, Paul. American Drawing, 1927–1977. Prologue by Miriam B. Lein. Saint Paul: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1977.
 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Contemporary Masters, September 11–October 30, 1977 (permanent collection exhibition). See P218.
 
Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., Works on Paper, 1900–1960: From Southern California Collections, September 18–October 27, 1977; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, November 11–December 31, 1977 (catalogue). See C4. Reviewed in Wilson 1977a.
Steadman, David W. Works on Paper, 1900–1960: From Southern California Collections. Introduction by Frederick S. Wright. Claremont, Calif.: Galleries of the Claremont College, 1977.
 
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art, September 20–November 27, 1977; University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif., December 20, 1977–February 12, 1978; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Tex., March 5–April 16, 1978; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, May 10–June 19, 1978 (catalogue). See P334.
Dillenberger, Jane, and John Dillenberger. Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1977.
 
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Fall 1977: Contemporary Collectors, September 25–December 18, 1977 (catalogue). See P661.
Fall 1977: Contemporary Collectors. Ridgefield, Conn.: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977.
 
New York State Museum, Albany, New York: The State of Art, October 8–November 27, 1977 (catalogue). See P85, P220.
Bishop, Robert, William H. Gerdts, and Thomas B. Hess. New York: The State of Art. Albany: New York State Museum, 1977.
 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Recent American Art from the Woodward Foundation, October 13, 1977–February 4, 1978. See P151. Reviewed in Raynor 1978a.
 
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, Aesthetics in Japanese Art: Form and Colour, October 15–December 18, 1977 (catalogue). See P777.
Aesthetics in Japanese Art: Form and Colour. Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Art, 1978.
 
Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland, Ostschweizer Privatbesitz, October 28–December 4, 1977 (checklist). See P191.
 
Huntington Galleries, W.Va., Twenty-five Selections from the Permanent Collection, November 13–September 3, 1977 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P527.
Twenty-five Selections from the Permanent Collection. Huntington, W.Va.: Huntington Galleries, 1977.
 
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage, November 17–December 30, 1977 (catalogue). See C3, C17, C20, C23, C39, C46, C104, C105, C237, C407, C434, C449, C452, C493, C510, C520, C559, C565, C576, C598, C603. Reviewed in Conroy 1977, Russell 1977, and Tallmer 1977.
Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo; introduction by Gene Baro. New York: Andrew Crispo Gallery, 1977.
 
Drawing Center, New York, Artists’ Postcards (traveling venues organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C.), November 19, 1977–January 7, 1978; Kenan Center, Lockport, N.Y., February 11–March 12, 1978; Montclair Art Museum, N.J., April 1–30, 1978; Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, Ala., May 20–June 18, 1978; Michigan Art Train, Detroit, July 8–August 10, 1978; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, October 14–November 12, 1978; C. W. Woods Art Gallery, Hattiesburg, Miss., December 2–31, 1978; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., January 20–February 18, 1979; Millersville State College, Pa., March 10–April 8, 1979; Portland Art Museum, Ore., August 4–September 2, 1979; Guild Hall, East Hampton, N.Y., September 22–October 21, 1979; Concord College, Athens, W.Va., November 10–December 9, 1979; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Mo., December 29, 1979–January 27, 1980 (checklist). See C600. Reviewed in Kramer 1977b and Wallach 1977a.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, From the American Collection: New Additions, November 22, 1977–January 8, 1978 (permanent collection exhibition). Drawings only.
 
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, Americans & Europeans, December 9, 1977–January 5, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Group Show, December 13, 1977–January 13, 1978 (checklist). See P806, C503.
 
1978
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages from 1941 to the Present, January 14–March 19, 1978; selected works shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1977 (see separate entry; catalogue and addenda). See P3, P69, P88, P177, P224, P231, P232, P429, P496, P673, P690, P719, P722, P751, P769, P775, P776, P779, P780, P786, P789, P794, P805, P807, P816, P821, P838, P842–P846, P850, P875, P877, P924, C49, C266, C384, C423, C428, C504, C515, C528, C567, C575, C583, C589, C592, C596, W19, W101, W104. Reviewed in Burr 1978, Heathcote 1978, L[ucie-]S[mith] 1978a, Lucie-Smith 1978b, Overy 1978, Quantrill 1978, Roberts 1978, Spurling 1978, SZ 1978, Tisdall 1978, Vaizey 1978, and Wykes-Joyce 1978.
Maloon, Terence. Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages from 1941 to the Present (includes artist’s statements). Preface by Norman Rosenthal. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1978.
 
Knoedler Gallery, London, Robert Motherwell, January 16, 1978 (end date unknown). Works unknown. Reviewed in Spurling 1978.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Robert Motherwell: Collages, Drawings, Paintings, March 18–April 1978. See P473, P778, P929, P946, C207, C378, C395, C396, C437, C476, C595, C599, C608, C609, W504, W513, W524, W529. Reviewed in Crossley 1978 and Moser 1978.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell, April 22–May 29, 1978 (catalogue). See P492, P678, P719, P722, P763, P775, P776, P779, P780, P860, P875, P877, P924, P935, P941, P953, C541, C579, C583, C589, C592, C606, C617, C619, W505, W516–W518, W521. Reviewed in Frackman 1978 and Russell 1978.
Robert Motherwell. New York: Knoedler & Company, 1978.
 
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Mo., Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, Graphics, November 11–December 5, 1978. See P442, P830, P941, C300, C409, C559, C605, W489. Reviewed in Melcher 1978.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Solomon & Company Fine Art, New York, Recent Acquisitions: De Kooning, Dine, Matta, Motherwell, Stella, ca. 1978 (exact dates unknown). See W198.
 
Hayward Gallery, London, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January 11–March 27, 1978 (catalogue). See C44.
Ades, Dawn. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Introduction by David Sylvester; essay by Elizabeth Cowling. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978.
 
Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Conn., Connecticut Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, ’78 (organized by the Art Resources of Connecticut, New Haven), January 15–February 19, 1978; New Britain Museum of American Art, Conn., February 24–March 24, 1978; Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, March 29–April 22, 1978 (catalogue). See W392. Reviewed in Cameron 1978, Gonzales 1978, and Raynor 1978b.
Connecticut Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, ’78. Foreword by Joseph S. MacLaughlin III; introduction by Virginia Mann Haggin. New Haven: Art Resources of Connecticut, 1978.
 
Rocky Mount Arts and Crafts Center, N.C., Art and Education at Black Mountain College, 1933–1956, January 15–February 28, 1978 (catalogue). See P67.
Smith, Leverett T., Jr., and Daisy B. Thorp. Art and Education at Black Mountain College, 1933–1956. Rocky Mount, N.C.: Rocky Mountain Arts and Crafts Center, 1978.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Three Generations: Studies in Collage, January 26–March 4, 1978. See C73, C114, C426.
 
Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, York University, Toronto, The John A. Schweitzer Collection, March 9–April 7, 1978. See P571.
 
Asheville Art Museum, N.C., Black Mountain College Retrospective, March 14–May 14, 1978. See P67.
 
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, March 30–May 14, 1978; Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, June 17–July 12, 1978; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 5–December 3, 1978 (venue catalogues). See P8, P11, P12, P68, P69, P84, C3, C22, C46, W5.
Hobbs, Robert Carleton, and Gail Levin. Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years. Introduction by Thomas W. Leavitt and Tom Armstrong. Entry “Robert Motherwell,” by Robert Carleton Hobbs, pp. 88–93. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 1978.
Bijutsukan, Seibu, and Asahi Shinbunsha, Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years (text in English and Japanese). Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art, 1978.
 
Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London, Groups, April 4–28, 1978 (catalogue). See P834.
Groups. London: Waddington and Tooth Galleries, 1978.
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Ala., American Art, 1934–1956: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 26–June 11, 1978; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, June 30–August 6, 1978; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, August 21–October 1, 1978 (catalogue). See P65.
American Art, 1934–1956: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Foreword by Tom Armstrong; introduction by Diane Gingold. Montgomery, Ala.: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1978.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Art 1950 to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 3–September 10, 1978 (permanent collection exhibition). See P489. Reviewed in New York Post 1978.
 
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Figure and Form, 1960–1970: Selections from the Michener Collection, May 14–August 20, 1978. See P210.
 
Galerie Veith Turske, Cologne, Germany, Selected Works of the European and American Abstract Expressionism, May 27–August 8, 1978. See P769.
 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist, June 1, 1978–January 14, 1979 (catalogue). See P156, P216, P220, P230, P650, P838, P850, W10, W104. Reviewed in Canaday 1978, Forgey 1978b, and Spike 1978.
Carmean, E. A., Jr., and Eliza A. Rathbone. American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist (includes artist’s statements). Contributions by Thomas B. Hess; essay “Robert Motherwell: The Elegies to the Spanish Republic,” by E. A. Carmean Jr., pp. 95–122. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1978.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., [group exhibition], June 25–July 8, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Akron Art Institute, Ohio, Ten Paintings & Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum, July 1–September 3, 1978. See P170.
 
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, American Painting, July 1–August 26, 1978. See P917, P944.
 
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Mass., Days Lumberyard Studios: Provincetown, 1914–1971, August 18–October 1, 1978 (catalogue). See W145. Unidentified: Untitled collage. Reviewed in Advocate Summer Guide 1978, Kingsley 1978, and Taylor 1978b.
Brooks, Ben, and Robert Motherwell. Days Lumberyard Studios: Provincetown, 1914–1971. Provincetown, Mass.: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1978.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Robert Motherwell/Tony Vevers, August 20–September 2, 1978 (checklist). See P939, P952, C524, C601, C606, W510, W528, W533. Unidentified: 22. Elegy. Reviewed in Hornak 1978.
 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Modern and Contemporary Masters from the Permanent Collection, September 10–October 29, 1978 (permanent collection exhibition). See P218.
 
Saint Louis Artists Guild, The New York Schools, September 10–28, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, Dix ans: Exposition du dixième anniversaire de la galerie, October 7–November 16, 1978 (catalogue). Works unknown.
Dix ans: Exposition du dixième anniversaire de la galerie (text in French). Introduction by Catherine Millet. Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 1978.
 
Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis, [group exhibition], October–November 30, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif., Berggruen at Art Center, November [1]–30, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Janus Gallery, Venice, Calif., Drawing Explorations, 1930–1978, November 17–December 23, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, New England Connections, November 27, 1978–January 31, 1979. See P218, P592, C601, C606.
 
Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, Paperworks by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, and Stanley Boxer, December 2–24, 1978. Works unknown.
 
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, American Masters of the Sixties and Seventies: Selections from the Collection of Jan and Ronald K. Greenberg, December 9–28, 1978 (catalogue). See P652.
Witt, Gary, ed. American Masters of the Sixties and Seventies: Selections from the Collection of Jan and Ronald K. Greenberg. Foreword by Lynda Ireland; introduction by Emily Rauh Pulitzer; essays by Lynda Ireland, Mary King, Richard H. Knowles, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, and Anne Robbins. Memphis: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1978.
 
1979
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Robert Motherwell & Black, March 19–June 3, 1979 (brochure, tabloid, and catalogue). See P135, P177, P180, P182, P232, P307, P308, P311–P313, P524, P649, P665, P673, P719, P721, P722, P751, P776, P779, P780, P838, P859, P860, P864, P865, P869, P877, P892, P924, C384, C402, C493, C498, C515, C524, C528, C530, C555, C573, C628, W16, W50, W64, W68, W70, W101, W128, W145, W147, W149, W343, W350, W357, W515, W560, W588, W630. Reviewed in Braun 1979, Highwater 1979, Morrin 1979, Newtown Bee 1979, Raynor 1979, and Scott 1979.
Terenzio, Stephanie. Robert Motherwell & Black (exhibition brochure). Storrs, Conn.: William Benton Museum of Art, 1979. Partially reprinted, with extensive additions, in Stephanie Terenzio, Robert Motherwell & Black (exhibition catalogue, includes artist’s statements). Storrs, Conn.: William Benton Museum of Art, 1980.
 
William Ehrlich Gallery, New York, Small Paintings, May 8–June 16, 1979. See P309, P354, P517, P518, P530, P543, P599, P604, P644–P646, P858, P897, P927, P947, P950, P951, P1122, P1133, C182, C249, C632, W272, W279, W281, W286–W288. Reviewed in Henry 1979.
 
William Ehrlich Gallery, New York, Robert Motherwell: The Remaining Miniatures from the Original Exhibit, June 18–July 28, 1979. See P519, P531, P548, P576, P600, P601, P641, P811, P848, P898, P899, P926, P940, P942, P945, P949, C181, C184, C618, W276, W280, W283, W525. Reviewed in Edwards 1979 and Henry 1979.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Motherwell, September 21–23, 1979 (checklist). See P960, P963, P964, P973, P974, C477, C626, C629, C634, C635, W638. Unidentified: 12. Red, White, and Blue with Music; 13. Drunk with Turpentine.
 
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kans., Robert Motherwell: Recent Works, October 31–November 25, 1979. See P665, P793, P835, P960, P976, P1024, C274, C496, C558, C626, C634, W543, W546, W547, W550, W551, W555, W557, W561, W564, W569, W572, W574, W577, W622.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Retrospective, 1941 to the Present, November 13–December 1979 (catalogue). See P288, P319, P689, P696, P776, P779, P780, P952, W16, W21, W109, W128, W145, W147, W149, W252, W286–W288, W290, W312, W357–W359, W468, W510, W528, W533, W541, W542, W549, W556, W563, W565, W568, W570, W625. Reviewed in Tennant 1979.
Flam, Jack. Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Retrospective, 1941 to the Present (includes artist’s statements). Houston: Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1979.
 
Galerie Veith Turske, Cologne, Germany, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, Works on Paper, 1962–1979, November 24, 1979–March 3, 1980. See P374, P744, P907, P946, W544. Reviewed in Du Journal 1980.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, [group exhibition], January 1979. Works unknown. Reviewed in Wilson and Muchnic 1979b.
 
Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., Black and White Are Colors: Paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, January 28–March 7, 1979; shown concurrently at the Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, Calif. (catalogue). See P96.
Rubin, David S. Black and White Are Colors: Paintings of the 1950s–1970s. Foreword by David W. Steadman. Claremont, Calif.: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1979.
 
Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nev., The New York School, 1940–1960: The First Generation of Abstract Expressionism, February 3–March 4, 1979 (catalogue). See P58.
The New York School, 1940–1960: The First Generation of Abstract Expressionism. Preface by Suzanne M. Loomis; essay by Irving Sandler. Reno, Nev.: Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, 1979.
 
Peninsula Arts Association, Newport News, Va., Contemporary Works from the Virginia Museum, February 5–26, 1979. See W210.
 
American Art from the Museum of Modern Art (circulated by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, February 15–April 16, 1979; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, May 18–July 16, 1979; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, August 6–September 16, 1979; Museo España de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, October 8–November 18, 1979; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria, December 10, 1979–January 20, 1980; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, February 18–April 12, 1980 (catalogue). See P215, P420.
Das Museum of Modern Art New York zu gast im Kunstmuseum Bern und Museum Ludwig Köln (text in German). Foreword by Sandor Kuthy and Karl Ruhrberg; essays by Richard E. Oldenburg, Waldo Rasmussen, Carolyn Lanchner, Barbara London, William S. Liebermann, Bernice Ross, Riva Castelman, Howardena Pindell, Arthur Drexler, J. Steward Johnson, John Szarkowski, Eileen Bowser, and Clive Phillpot. New York: Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Kunstmuseum, Bern, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1978.
 
Galerie Isernhagen, Germany, 15 Amerikaner, February 25–April 30, 1979. See P907, C521.
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Ala., Art Inc.: American Paintings from Corporate Collections, March 7–May 6, 1979; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 12–July 14, 1979; Indianapolis Museum of Art, August 8–September 23, 1979 (catalogue). See P822.
Art Inc.: American Paintings from Corporate Collections. Introduction by Mitchell Douglas Kahan. Montgomery, Ala.: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, in association with Brandywine Press, 1979.
 
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., Collage: American Masters, Part I, March 25–May 6, 1979 (catalogue). See C619. Reviewed in Shirey 1979 and Watkins 1979.
Collage: American Masters. Foreword by Kathryn E. Gamble; introduction by Robert J. Koenig. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1979.
 
Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, N.Y., Works on Paper U.S.A., April 8–May 20, 1979 (catalogue). See W516.
Greene, Stephen. Works on Paper U.S.A. West Nyack, N.Y.: Rockland Center for the Arts, 1979.
 
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, American Abstract Painting in the 1950’s, April 28–June 9, 1979 (catalogue). See P218, C66.
Divver, Barbara. American Abstract Painting in the 1950’s. Boston: Harcus Krakow Gallery, 1979.
 
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela, David Smith/Robert Motherwell, May 1979. See P486, P507, P510, P777, P791, P799, P891, P908, P911, C545, W505.
Ashton, Dore. David Smith/Robert Motherwell (text in English and Spanish; includes artist’s statements). Foreword by Sofia Imber. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundacion Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, 1979.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Summer Exhibition: Selected Acquisitions, July 4–September 15, 1979. See C308.
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, July 17–September 30, 1979 (checklist). See P159, P278.
 
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Mass., Provincetown Art Association and Museum Invitational 1979, [ca. September–October 1979]. See C629.
 
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, American Painting, 1955 to 1976: Twenty-five Selections from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, September 14–October 28, 1979; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, November 9, 1979–January 6, 1980; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 18–March 2, 1980; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 21–May 4, 1980; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 23–July 13, 1980 (catalogue). See P672.
American Painting, 1955 to 1976: Twenty-five Selections from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1979.
 
Pace Gallery, New York, 5 Action Painters of the 50’s, September 21–October 13, 1979 (catalogue). See P122, P147, P177, C66. Reviewed in Cavaliere 1979b.
5 Action Painters of the 50’s. Essay by Harold Rosenberg. New York: Pace Gallery, 1979.
 
Centre Culturel Américain, U.S. Embassy, Paris, Autour de Jackson Pollock, East Hampton, 1946–56, September 28–November 10, 1979. See C551.
 
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, America & Europe: A Century of Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, October 2–November 18, 1979; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, December 7, 1979–February 3, 1980; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, February 12–March 30, 1980; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, April 16–May 30, 1980; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, July 26–August 24, 1980; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, September 4–October 1, 1980; Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, October 8–November 4, 1980; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 11–December 7, 1980 (venue catalogues). See C603.
America & Europe: A Century of Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Introduction by Henry Thyssen-Bornemisza, David Thomas, William Warner, and Andrew J. Crispo. Sydney: Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1980.
 
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism, October 3–November 25, 1979 (catalogue). See P3, P85, C11, C44. Reviewed in Wilson 1979.
Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Chicago: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1979.
 
Squibb Gallery, Princeton, N.J., Selections from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, October 4–November 4, 1979 (catalogue). See C38.
Selections from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker. Introduction by Richard Brown Baker. Princeton, N.J.: Squibb Gallery, 1976.
 
Asher/Fauré, Los Angeles, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Jules Olitski, David Smith, October 13–November 10, 1979. Drawings only. Reviewed in Wilson and Muchnic 1979a.
 
1980
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Centro Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Motherwell, February 26–April 6, 1980; Fundación Juan March, Madrid, April 18–June 8, 1980 (venue catalogues). See P3, P157, P177, P222, P224, P277, P673, P722, P786, P789, P850, P860, P924, P933, P958, P964, P974, C428, C515, C532, C573, C628, C637. Reviewed in ABC 1980, Corredór-Matheos 1980, Figuerola-Ferretti 1980, Garcia 1980, Glueck 1980, Guisasola 1980, Rubio 1980, Serraller 1980, and Torroella 1980.
Motherwell (text in Catalan). Poem by Octavio Paz. Barcelona: Centro Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, in association with Fundación Juan March, 1980.
Motherwell (text in Spanish). Interview with the artist by Barbaralee Diamonstein. Madrid: Fundacion Juan March, 1980.
 
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, Robert Motherwell, May 18–June 21, 1980 (checklist). See P246, P425, P500, P925, C196, C643, C644, W562, W567, W578, W579, W628.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Group Show, January 5–24, 1980 (checklist). See P468.
 
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Lettres et chiffres, Schrift im Bild, March–May 1980 (catalogue). See C639.
Lettres et chiffres, Schrift im Bild (text in English, French, and German). Basel, Switzerland: Galerie Beyeler, 1980.
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Ala., American Painting of the Sixties & Seventies: The Real/The Ideal/The Fantastic; Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 4–May 25, 1980; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, July 25–September 14, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, Fla., September 28–November 9, 1980; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, December 8, 1980–January 15, 1981; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colo., February 1–March 21, 1981; Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nev., April 11–May 23, 1981 (catalogue). See P489.
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas. American Painting of the Sixties & Seventies: The Real/The Ideal/The Fantastic; Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Preface by Tom Armstrong; foreword by Philip A. Klopfenstein. Montgomery, Ala.: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1980.
 
Brockton Art Museum-Fuller Memorial, Mass., Aspects of the 70’s: Painterly Abstraction, May 3–August 24, 1980 (catalogue). See P465, P593.
Hoffman, Marilyn Friedman. Aspects of the 70’s: Painterly Abstraction. Brockton, Mass.: Brockton Art Museum-Fuller Memorial, 1980.
 
Brooklyn Museum, From the Twenties to the Seventies: Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, May 17–September 28, 1980 (checklist). See P373, P420.
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, May 22–September 21, 1980 (catalogue). See P122, P147, P173. Reviewed in Landau 1980.
Rosenzweig, Phyllis. The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York. Foreword by Adam Lerner. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Group Show, summer 1980 (checklist). See P468, P816.
 
NorthPark National Bank, Dallas, Three Decades: Oil on Canvas, summer 1980. See P370.
 
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y., Seventeen Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years, 1946–56, July 20–September 14, 1980; William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 11–November 16, 1980; Zabriskie Gallery, New York, November 18–December 14, 1980 (catalogue). See C51, W16, W30. Reviewed in Harrison 1980, Preston 1980, and Shirey 1980.
Seventeen Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years, 1946–56. Introduction by Virginia M. Zabriskie; essay by Dore Ashton. Southampton, N.Y.: Parrish Art Museum, 1980.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, An Exhibition of Important Contemporary Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture, August 9–September 6, 1980. See C80, C518.
 
Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, Old and Modern Master Drawings, August 22–October 7, 1980 (permanent collection exhibition). See C55.
 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Selections from the Permanent Collection, September 7–October 26, 1980 (permanent collection exhibition). See P218.
 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Collects Modern Art, September 10–October 26, 1980 (catalogue). See P622.
Cleveland Collects Modern Art. Introduction by Edward B. Henning. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Selections for Fall ’80, September 10–October 11, 1980 (checklist). See P816.
 
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Mo., [group exhibition], [October] 1980. See P587.
 
Solomon & Company Fine Art, New York, Major Paintings: De Kooning, Dine, Lichtenstein, Motherwell, Stella, November 1–30, 1980. Unknown works.
 
Washburn Gallery, New York, From Matisse to American Abstract Painting, November 5–December 31, 1980 (brochure). See C303.
From Matisse to American Abstract Painting. New York: Washburn Gallery, 1980.
 
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de museos de la cuidad de Washington, November 18, 1980–January 4, 1981 (catalogue). See P194.
Brown, Milton W. La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de museos de la cuidad de Washington (text in Spanish). Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1980. Published in English as Milton W. Brown, One Hundred Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections in Washington, D.C., with contributions by Judith H. Lanius (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983).
 
Brooklyn Museum, American Drawing in Black & White, 1970–1980, November 22, 1980–January 18, 1981 (catalogue). See W462.
American Drawing in Black & White, 1970–1980. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1980.
 
Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, A Growing Collection, December 4–21, 1980 (permanent collection exhibition). See P281.
 
1981
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell & Black, February 13–March 12, 1981 (checklist). See P177, P231, P243, P263, P647, P673, P722, P751, P770, P776, P860, P877, P939, P958, C44, C493, C515, C530, C573, C628, C650, C651, C657, C658, W107, W125, W541, W564. Reviewed in Baro 1981, Newman 1981, and Wolff 1981.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., The Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors, January 18–March 22, 1981 (catalogue). See P208, W3, W127, W141, W157, W198.
Schwartz, Constance. The Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors. Essays by Max Kozloff and Dore Ashton. Entry “Robert Motherwell” by Constance Schwartz, pp. 55–58. Roslyn, N.Y.: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1981.
 
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, One Night of Color, February 6, 1981. See P340.
 
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas at Sala Cadafe, Venezuela, Arte en las Embajadas, February 15–March 15, 1981 (catalogue). See C552. Reviewed in Luers 1981.
Arte en las Embajadas (text in Spanish). Foreword by William H. Luers. Caracas, Venezuala: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, 1981.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Decade of Transition, 1940–1950: A Permanent Collection Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, April 30–July 12, 1981 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P65.
Sims, Patterson. Decade of Transition, 1940–1950. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Ten American Abstract Masters, May 1–30, 1981 (brochure). See P425.
 
Milwaukee Art Museum, Center Ring, the Artist: Two Centuries of Circus Art, May 7–June 28, 1981; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, August 30–October 11, 1981; New York State Museum, Albany, December 11, 1981–March 7, 1982; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 24–June 6, 1982 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Jensen, Dean, and Susanne-Christine Voeltz. Center Ring, the Artist: Two Centuries of Circus Art. Foreword by Robert H. Wills; preface by Gerald Nordland. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1981.
 
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th & 20th Centuries, May 14–June 28, 1981; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, July 12–August 23, 1981 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Morrin, Peter, and Eric Zafran. Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th & 20th Centuries. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1981.
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, May 21–September 27, 1981 (catalogue). See P168. Reviewed in Kramer 1981 and Wilson 1981.
Lieberman, William S., ed. An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.
 
Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May 30–August 16, 1981 (catalogue). See P82, C46.
Glozer, Laszlo. Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939 (text in German). Cologne, Germany: DuMont Buchverlag, 1981.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, East Hampton/New York: New York Museums Salute Guild Hall, June 10–19, 1981 (catalogue). See P138.
East Hampton/New York: New York Museums Salute Guild Hall. Foreword by Eloise Spaeth and Enez Whipple. East Hampton, N.Y.: Guild Hall Museum, 1981.
 
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, July 4–November 1, 1981; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, November 22, 1981–February 16, 1982; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March 14–May 30, 1982; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 24–September 16, 1982; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, October 17, 1982–January 9, 1983 (catalogue). See C129.
Green, Eleanor, and Robert Cafritz. Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection. Introduction by Laughlin Phillips; foreword by Milton Brown. Fort Lee, N.J.: Penshurst Books, 1981.
 
City Art Centre and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, American Abstract Expressionists (organized by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York), August 13–September 12, 1981; shown as part of the Edinburgh International Festival (catalogue). See P3, P4, P215, C44. Reviewed in Connoisseur 1981, Phillipson 1981, and Vaizey 1981.
American Abstract Expressionists. Introduction by John Drummond; essay by Waldo Rasmussen. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
 
Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels, 1945–1981 (circulated by the Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, France), Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada, September 1981; City of Quebec Cultural Center, Canada, September 1981; Hull-Ottawa Cultural Center, Canada, September 1981; Seibu Museum of Art, Ikebukuro, Japan, June 15–17, 1982; Takanawa Art Festival, Tokyo, June 18–21, 1982; Seibu Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Japan, June 26–July 20, 1982; Seibu Museum of Art, Shibuya, Japan, July 27–August 15, 1982; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, August 20–September 10, 1983; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1984–March 10, 1985; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, April 15–June 9, 1985; Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, July 6–August 25, 1985; Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., September 21–November 10, 1985; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., December 7, 1985–January 19, 1986; Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, February 15–March 30, 1986; Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago, April 26–August 17, 1986; Vancouver Museum of Art, September 16–October 26, 1986; Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Tex., November 22, 1986–January 4, 1987; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., January 31–March 15, 1987; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, April 11–May 24, 1987; San Diego Museum of Art, Calif., June 20–August 2, 1987; Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, Mich., August 29–October 11, 1987; Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, November 6–December 18, 1987; Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas, January 29, 1988; University of Nevada at Las Vegas, February 2–11, 1988; Tacoma Art Museum, Wash., March 26–May 8, 1988; Arkansas Art Museum, Little Rock, May 26–June 16, 1988; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, N.Y., December 9, 1988–February 12, 1989; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Calif., March 4–April 16, 1989; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., May 6–June 14, 1989; Flint Institute of Art, Mich., June 25–July 23, 1989; Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa, August 6–September 17, 1989; Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, February 1992; Waddesdon Manor, England, March–November 1995; Banque du Crédit Communal de Bruxelles, “Les Arts du Vin,” Brussels, November 1995–March 1996; CAPC—Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France, April 2–26, 1998; Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, June 16–18, 1998; China National Art Gallery, Beijing, April 21–May 6, 2001; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 22–March 5, 2005; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, March 15–20, 2005; Sotheby’s, New York, February 23–March 13, 2007; Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, March 1–30, 2008; Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami, February 19–March 8, 2009 (catalogue). See P862. Reviewed in Kessler 1984 and R[ebello] 1985.
Rothschild, Philippine de, and Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais. Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels, 1945–1981. Translated by John Wells. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, [group exhibition], fall 1981 (checklist). See P183.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Conn., A Tradition Established, 1940–1970: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 4–October 14, 1981 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P171.
Phillips, Lisa. A Tradition Established, 1940–1970: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981.
 
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, Robert Elkon: Two Decades, September 26–November 4, 1981 (catalogue). See C39.
Robert Elkon: Two Decades. Essay by Barbara Rose. New York: Robert Elkon Gallery, 1981.
 
American Museum: An Experience in Community (circulated and organized by the International Communication Agency, Washington, D.C.), [unknown venue], Bucharest, October 13–November 1, 1981; Museum of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 25–June 13, 1982; Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 27–August 19, 1982. See C406.
 
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C., Eleven Paintings and Two Sculptures from the Sixties, November 7–December 10, 1981 (catalogue). See P425, W17. Reviewed in Lewis 1981.
Eleven Paintings and Two Sculptures from the Sixties. Foreword by B. R. Kornblatt. Washington, D.C.: B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, 1981.
 
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Amerikanische Malerei, 1930–1980, November 14, 1981–January 31, 1982 (catalogue). See P161, P877. Reviewed in Bode 1981 and Ude 1982.
Armstrong, Tom. Amerikanische Malerei, 1930–1980 (text in German). Contributions by Bernd Growe; translated by Helmut Schneider. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1981.
 
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Collections—An American Tradition: Abstraction, December 1981–January 1982. See P677. Reviewed in Kangas 1982.
 
American Academy in Rome, Works by American Artists in Roman Collections, December 10, 1981–January 8, 1982 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Works by American Artists in Roman Collections. Foreword by Sophie Consagra. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1981.
 
Saint Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Masterpieces from the Shoenberg Foundation, December 11, 1981–January 31, 1982. See P403.
 
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., California Collects: Important Works from the Permanent Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 17, 1981–February 14, 1982. See P790.
 
1982
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: A Selection from Current Work, February 20–March 11, 1982 (checklist). See P1025, P1029–P1031, P1033, P1034, P1037, P1038, C667, C670, C675, W579. Reviewed in Bass 1982.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, A Curator’s Choice, 1942–1963: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, February 6–March 6, 1982 (catalogue). See C14.
Miller, Dorothy C., and Robert Rosenblum. A Curator’s Choice, 1942–1963: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller. New York: Rosa Esman Gallery, 1982.
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, February 9–April 4, 1982 (catalogue). See P419, P821.
A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection. Essays by Carl Belz, Kathy Halbreich, Kenworth Moffett, Elisabeth Sussman, and Diane W. Upright. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982.
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, A Century of Modern Drawing, March 1–16, 1982 (permanent collection exhibition). See C7.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Selected Works on Paper, March 2–April 3, 1982. See W144.
 
Dallas Museum of Art, Recent Gifts from the Meadows Collection, March 9–April 25, 1982 (permanent collection exhibition; checklist). See P358.
 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection, April 1–June 13, 1982 (catalogue). See P148.
Tuchman, Maurice, and Anne Carnegie Edgerton. The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection. Introduction by Michael Blankfort. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996.
 
CDS Gallery, New York, Artists Choose Artists, April 15–June 12, 1982 (catalogue). See P1046. Reviewed in Glueck 1982.
Artists Choose Artists. New York: CDS Gallery, 1982.
 
New Britain Museum of American Art, Conn., Small Pictures: The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 72nd Year Exhibition; Small Paintings, April 17–May 30, 1982. See P949.
 
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., The Long Island Collections: A Century of Art, 1880–1980, April 20–July 18, 1982 (catalogue). See C41.
Schwartz, Constance, and Thomas Saltzman. The Long Island Collections: A Century of Art, 1880–1980. Roslyn, N.Y.: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1982.
 
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, Paintings from the 1960s, May 8–June 15, 1982. See P218.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, The Season in Review, summer 1982. Works unknown.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The New York School: Four Decades, Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans, July 1–August 22, 1982 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See P607.
Dennison, Lisa. The New York School: Four Decades, Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans (includes artist’s statements). Foreword by Diane Waldman. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1982.
 
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Americans: The Collage, July 11–October 3, 1982 (catalogue). See C476, C595.
The Americans: The Collage. Essay by Linda L. Cathcart. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1982.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Gray Day Studies, July 25–August 7, 1982. See P1052–P1054.
 
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Works on Paper: A Selection of Collages from the Phillips Collection, September 11–November 14, 1982 (permanent collection exhibition; brochure). See C90. Reviewed in Lewis 1982.
 
Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Conn., Abstract Expressionism Lives!, September 19–November 7, 1982 (catalogue). See P15, P147, P425, P1025. Reviewed in Beals 1982, Jinishian 1982, Kurtzman 1982, Raynor 1982, and Roswell 1982.
Metzger, Robert. Abstract Expressionism Lives! Stamford, Conn.: Stamford Museum & Nature Center, 1982.
 
Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, Treasures from the Norton Gallery of Art, September 28–October 21, 1982 (checklist). See P11.
 
Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., Edward W. Root: Collector and Teacher, October 1–November 14, 1982 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Trovato, Joseph S. Edward W. Root: Collector and Teacher. Foreword by William Salzillo. Clinton, N.Y.: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1982.
 
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, Twentieth Century Masters, October 2–November 11, 1982. See P154.
 
CDS Gallery, New York, Renate Ponsold, October 12–November 15, 1982 (catalogue). See C289.
Renate Ponsold. New York: CDS Gallery, 1982.
 
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Acquisitions since 1975, November 5, 1982–January 16, 1983 (permanent collection exhibition). See W470.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Seven American Abstract Masters, November 9–December 18, 1982. See P15, P19.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 60 Works: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, November 18, 1982–March 13, 1983 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See C8.
60 Works: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1982.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Small Works by Major Artists, December 14, 1982–January 22, 1983. See P949.
 
Phoenix II Gallery, Washington, D.C., Twenty-five Artists, December 22, 1982–January 1983 (catalogue). See P1039.
Bujese, Arlene, ed. Twenty-five Artists. Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1982.
 
1983
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, Robert Motherwell Drawings, March 28–April 14, 1983. See W542, W547, W567, W573, W578, W579, W583, W609, W618, W621, W629, W649, W667, W668.
 
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Mass., Robert Motherwell: Tribute to James Joyce, May 27–June 26, 1983; Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., August 7–20, 1983 (checklist). See P659, P680, P683, P687, P857, P1066, P1069, C476, C503, C532, C669, W636. Reviewed in Advocate Summer Guide 1983a, Advocate Summer Guide 1983b, Forman 1983, and Ryan 1983.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Robert Motherwell, October 1–November 27, 1983; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 5–March 4, 1984; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 12–June 3, 1984; Seattle Art Museum, June 21–August 5, 1984; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 15–November 4, 1984; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 3, 1984–February 3, 1985; the New York venue included a vastly different selection of works and therefore was treated as a separate exhibition (catalogue). See P3, P4, P11, P18, P47, P84, P85, P88, P118, P122, P136, P147, P156, P160, P163, P164, P176, P182, P183, P194, P216, P219, P223, P224, P238, P340, P352, P378, P408, P463, P486, P492, P494, P496, P606, P607, P650, P659, P673, P707, P717, P741, P777, P786, P789, P804, P805, P819, P830, P842–P846, P860, P867, P868, P875, P974, P1024, P1025, P1035, P1038, P1046, P1063, C3, C5, C11, C22, C43, C44, C46, C104, C105, C124, C129, C220, C441, C493, C498, C515, C530, C532, C669, C675, W2, W10, W19, W40, W101, W104, W622. Reviewed in Baitz 1984, Bannon 1983a, Bannon 1983b, Bannon 1984b, Boettger 1984, Brenson 1983b, Burkhart 1984, Danieli 1984, Duffy 1984, Fowler 1984, Glowen 1984, Hackett 1984, Hayes 1984, Hughes 1983, Hüllenkremer 1984, Ianco-Starrels 1984, Inje 1984, Kangas 1984, Knight 1984, Levine 1984, Los Angeles Herald Examiner 1984, McClintic 1984, McColm 1984, Morch 1984b, Morgan 1983, News Chronicle/Thousand Oaks 1984, Pasadena Star-News 1984, Ratcliff 1983, Regan 1984, Richard 1984, San Gabriel Valley Herald 1984, San Marino Tribune and San Marino News 1984, Silverman 1984, Stevens 1984, Stutzin 1984, Tarzan 1984, West 1984, West Art 1984, Wilson 1984, and Winter 1984.
Ashton, Dore, and Jack Flam. Robert Motherwell (includes artist’s statements). Introduction by Robert T. Buck. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery; New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., Connecticut Painters 7 + 7 + 7, January 15–March 6, 1983 (catalogue). See P160, P1050, C667. Reviewed in Raynor 1983a and Whitbeck 1983.
Connecticut Painters 7 + 7 + 7. Introduction by Andrea Miller-Keller and Cecil B. Adams. Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1984.
 
American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (circulated by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., February 4–March 20, 1983; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, November 30, 1984–January 20, 1985; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., July 5–October 6, 1985; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, June 19–August 2, 1987; to additional unknown venues (brochure). See P753.
American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Essay by Sam Hunter. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1983.
 
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., On the Twentieth Century: Recent Acquisitions, March 6–April 10, 1983 (permanent collection exhibition). See P336.
 
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Master Drawings from the Collection, March 11–April 24, 1983 (permanent collection exhibition). See W470.
 
Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, Modern Drawings and Watercolors, March 26–May 29, 1983 (permanent collection exhibition). See C55.
 
Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., Art from the Ivory Tower: Selections from College and University Collections, April 9–May 29, 1983 (catalogue). See C40.
Stimmell, Erin M., and David L. Prince. Art from the Ivory Tower: Selections from College and University Collections. Clinton, N.Y.: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1983.
 
Knoedler Zürich, Abstract Painting, April 23–June 4, 1983. See C677.
 
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, American Masters, May [8]–28, 1983. See W9.
 
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 47th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, June 26–August 28, 1983 (catalogue). See C630. Reviewed in Dialogue: The Ohio Arts Journal 1983.
National Midyear Exhibition—1983: The Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, Ohio: Butler Institute of American Art, 1983.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Blue, July 24–August 6, 1983. See C653, W525.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, August 7–20, 1983. See C649. Unidentified: Untitled. Reviewed in Advocate Summer Guide 1983a.
 
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, Living with Art, Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch, September 10–December 16, 1983; Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Ind., January 22–March 25, 1984 (catalogue). See P137.
Living with Art, Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch. Foreword by David Berreth; introduction by Sterling Cook. Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Art Museum, 1983.
 
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., The New England Eye: Master American Paintings from New England School, College & University Collections, September 11–November 6, 1983 (catalogue). See P218.
Faison, S. Lane, Jr. The New England Eye: Master American Paintings from New England School, College & University Collections. Preface by Thomas Krens. Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College Museum of Art, 1983.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Conn., Live from Connecticut, September 15–November 2, 1983 (catalogue). See P230, P723, P1042, C676. Reviewed in Jinishian 1983, Raynor 1983b, and Sill 1983.
Live from Connecticut. Foreword by Lisa Phillips and Pamela Gruninger. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Nine Contemporary American Masters, September 29–October 22, 1983 (catalogue). See P963, C435.
Nine Contemporary American Masters. New York: Marisa del Re Gallery, 1983.
 
Fenwick Library Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., Abstractions from the Phillips Collection, October 14–November 15, 1983 (catalogue). See C90.
North, Percy. Abstractions from the Phillips Collection. Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University, 1983.
 
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, Robert Elkon—Memorial Exhibition, A Tribute, October 15–November 23, 1983 (catalogue). See C51.
Robert Elkon—Memorial Exhibition, A Tribute. Introduction by Leo Castelli. New York: Robert Elkon Gallery, 1983.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Art for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze, October 18, 1983 (auction and exhibition to benefit the Nuclear Weapons FREEZE campaign); Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, October 21, 1983; Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., October 28, 1983; Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, November 4, 1983; Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis, November 8, 1983; John C. Stoller & Company, Minneapolis, November 12, 1983; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, November 21, 1983; Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, November 25, 1983; Brooke Alexander, New York, December 3, 1983 (catalogue). See W547.
Art for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze. Foreword by Randall Kehler; introduction by Judith Goldman and Michael Mazur. Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery, 1983.
 
Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Iowa, Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center’s Permanent Collection, October 24–November 20, 1983; Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, January 15–February 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Iowa, April 1–May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa, May 27–July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, July 15–August 26, 1984 [catalogue]. See C406.
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from the Museum of Modern Art, October 26, 1983–January 3, 1984 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See C7.
Elderfield, John. The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1983.
 
Solomon & Company Fine Art, New York, Paintings & Sculpture, November 1983 (checklist). See W105.
 
Stephen Mazoh & Company, New York, Twentieth Century Works of Art, November 1–December 31, 1983 (catalogue). See C52.
Twentieth Century Works of Art. New York: Stephen Mazoh, 1983.
 
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, The Permanent Collection: Highlights and Recent Acquisitions, November 8–December 10, 1983 (permanent collection exhibition). See C88.
 
Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, Art contre/against Apartheid, November 22, 1983 (end date unknown); Konsthall, Lund, Sweden; Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland; Lahden Taidemuseo, Lahti, Finland; Tampere Modern Art Museum, Finland; Udstillingsbygningen, Copenhagen; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark; Centre d’Action Culturelle de Saint-Brieuc, France, Les Artistes du Monde Contre L’Apartheid, January 23–February 20, 1983; La Maison de l’Etranger, Marseille, France, March 7, 1985 (end date unknown); Public Lobby of the General Assembly Building, United Nations, New York, November 3–22, 1985 (catalogue). See W581. Reviewed in Craven 1985.
Art contre/against Apartheid (text in English and French). Essay by Antonio Saura and Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Paris: Les Artistes du Monde Contre l’Apartheid, 1983.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, December 7, 1983–January 14, 1984 (checklist and catalogue). See P177, P231, P1073, P1105, C649, C653, C657, C687, W18, W107, W125, W659.
Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, David Smith. New York: Knoedler & Company, 1983.
 
Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa, American Works on Paper: 100 Years of American Art History, December 11, 1983–February 12, 1984; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, February 24–April 8, 1984; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, April 15–May 20, 1984; Wichita Falls Museum, Tex., May 27–July 1, 1984; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, July 8–August 12, 1984; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., August 19–September 23, 1984; Huntsville Museum of Art, Ala., September 30–November 4, 1984; Gardiner Art Gallery, Stillwater, Okla., November 11–December 16, 1984; Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colo., January 4–March 3, 1985; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Neb., March 17–April 21, 1985; Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, Ill., May 5–June 9, 1985; Salina Art Center, Kans., August 11–September 15, 1985; Springfield Art Museum, Mo., September 29–November 3, 1985; Art Museum, University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 17–December 29, 1985 (catalogue). See C434.
American Works on Paper: 100 Years of American Art History. Kansas City, Mo.: Lowell Press, 1983.
 
1984
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Gallery 30, San Mateo, Calif., Robert Motherwell, Prints and Works on Paper, April 12–May 16, 1984. See W142. Reviewed in San Mateo Times 1984.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: New Collages, October 3–25, 1984 (catalogue). See C688–C696, C698–C710. Reviewed in Raynor 1984b, Seeney 1984, Siegel 1984, and Tatransky 1985.
Robert Motherwell: New Collages. New York: Knoedler & Company, 1984.
 
Knoedler Zürich, Robert Motherwell: Ausgewählte Druckgrafik und Arbeiten auf Papier, November 17, 1984–January 12, 1985. See W516.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Motherwell, December 6, 1984–February 3, 1985; final venue of the 1983 Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s traveling retrospective (checklist). See P3, P11, P18, P84, P85, P100, P118, P147, P156, P157, P162, P164, P176, P177, P182, P183, P194, P219, P220, P223, P224, P238, P340, P378, P486, P492, P607, P644–P646, P673, P682, P717, P741, P751, P777, P786, P789, P805, P819, P830, P842–P846, P857, P875, P884, P916, P924, P949, P974, P1008, P1013, P1024, P1025, P1027, P1028, P1038, P1046, P1063, P1066, P1074–P1077, P1080, P1082–P1086, P1088, P1101–P1103, P1146, C5, C11, C22, C42, C44, C46, C52, C66, C104, C105, C124, C129, C220, C384, C441, C477, C493, C498, C515, C530, C532, C669, C675, C708, C710, W2, W10, W19, W30, W40, W65, W87, W101, W104, W272, W578, W579, W622, W658, W668, W677, W678. The New York version featured a vastly different selection of works from the versions shown at the previous venues and appears in the catalogue entries for these works as a separate exhibition. Reviewed in Beals 1984, Cooke 1985, Danto 1985, Fairburn 1984, Garcia-Herraiz 1985, Gaugh 1985, Kimball 1985, Larson 1985, Rosand 1985, Russell 1984, Sozanski 1984, Wallach 1984a, Wallach 1984b, and Wolff 1984a.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Ala., Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946–48 (organized by the United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.), January 10–March 4, 1984; William Benton Museum of Fine Art, Storrs, Conn., March 17–May 6, 1984; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 1–October 8, 1984; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Ill., October 21–December 9, 1984 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Ausfeld, Margaret Lynne, and Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946–48. Foreword by Ross C. Anderson. Montgomery, Ala.: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1984.
 
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship, January 14–April 22, 1984 (catalogue). See P632.
Van der Marck, Jan. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Contributions by J. Carter Brown, Sherman E. Lee, Agnes Mongan, and Phillipe de Montebello. Miami: Center for the Fine Arts, 1984.
 
Twentieth-Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection (organized by the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock), Eastern Shore Association, Fairhope, Ala., January 15–February 29, 1984; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, April 27–September 30, 1984; Louisiana Arts & Sciences Center, Baton Rouge, May 7–June 30, 1985; Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, Tex., September 8–October 31, 1985; Jacksonville Art Museum, Fla., November 14, 1985–January 5, 1986; Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Center, Winter Park, Fla., March 14–April 27, 1986; Meadows Museum and Sculpture Court, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, June 8–August 3, 1986; Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, Pueblo, Colo., September 12–October 24, 1986; Alexandria Museum Visual Art Center, La., November 3, 1986–January 3, 1987; Alaska State Museum, Juneau, March 19–April 26, 1987; University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, May 8–June 21, 1987 (catalogue). See W529.
Wolfe, Townsend. Twentieth-Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection. Little Rock: Arkansas Arts Center, 1984.
 
Seattle Art Museum, The Richard and Jane Lang Collection, February 2–April 1, 1984 (catalogue). See P340, P677.
Johns, Barbara. The Richard and Jane Lang Collection. Foreword by Arnold Jolles; introduction by Bruce Guenther. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1984.
 
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters; The Spirit of Modernism, February 26–April 29, 1984 (catalogue). See P149.
Rosenblum, Robert, Gregory Hedberg, and Emily Tremaine. The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters; The Spirit of Modernism. Preface by Tracy Atkinson. Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1984.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Master Drawings, 1928–1984, March–April 1984 (catalogue). See W504.
Master Drawings, 1928–1984. Houston: Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1984.
 
Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, Artists at Hunter, 1950–1965, April 11–May 10, 1984 (catalogue). See P138.
Goossen, E. C. Artists at Hunter, 1950–1965. New York: Hunter College Art Gallery, 1984.
 
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, La Rime et la raison: Les Collections Ménil (Houston–New York), April 17–July 30, 1984 (catalogue). See P431.
De Ménil, Dominique, Walter Hopps, Bertrand Davezac, and Jean-Yves Mock. La Rime et la raison: Les Collections Ménil (Houston–New York) (text in French). Foreword by Hubert Landais. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1984.
 
Acquavella Galleries, New York, XIX & XX Century Master Drawings & Watercolors, April 24–May 19, 1984 (catalogue). See C52.
XIX & XX Century Master Drawings & Watercolors. New York: Acquavella Galleries, 1984.
 
Twentieth-Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context (organized by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C.), Terra Museum of Art, Evanston, Ill., April 26–June 17, 1984; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, July 5–August 19, 1984; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, September 1–October 15, 1984; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, November 7–December 30, 1984; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 19–March 3, 1985; National Academy of Design, New York, March 19–May 5, 1985 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Cummings, Paul. Twentieth-Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context. Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1984.
 
Hirschl & Adler Modern and Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Great American Artists: The Skowhegan Medal Recipients, May 1–31, 1984 (catalogue). See P1026. Reviewed in Raynor 1984a.
Great American Artists: The Skowhegan Medal Recipients. Foreword by John Whitney Payson and Mrs. Lawrence E. Brinn; essay by Calvin Tompkins. Entry “Robert Motherwell,” by E. A. Carmean Jr., pp. 92–93. New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection; Skowhegan, Maine: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 1984.
 
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, [group exhibition], May 1–25, 1984. See W9. Reviewed in Klein 1984.
 
Arnold Herstand & Company, New York, Surrealism: Works on Paper from de Chirico to Pollock, May 5–June 30, 1984. Unidentified: Personage.
 
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, Important Works by Contemporary Masters, May 10–15, 1984. See P370, P569, P932.
 
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, [loan exhibition], May 10–September 16, 1984. See P821.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Summer Selections, June–August 1984 (checklist). See P1032.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Early Works, July 15–28, 1984. See P100.
 
San Francisco Art Institute, American Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection, July 16–August 11, 1984 (catalogue). See P914. Reviewed in Curtis 1984.
American Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection. Introduction by David S. Rubin. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1984.
 
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, Calif., [group exhibition], [August] 1984. See P752. Reviewed in Damsker 1984.
 
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, A Growing American Treasure: Recent Acquisitions and Highlights from the Permanent Collection, September 21, 1984–April 14, 1985 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See C565.
Bantel, Linda, Stephen R. Edidin, Kathleen A. Foster, Frank H. Goodyear Jr., Susan James-Gadzinski, Elizabeth Milroy, and Judith E. Stein. A Growing American Treasure: Acquisitions since 1978. Introduction by Frank H. Goodyear Jr. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1984.
 
Saint Peter’s Church, Citicorp Center, New York, [loan exhibition], October [1], 1984–April [1], 1985. See P984.
 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 28–December 16, 1984 (permanent collection exhibition). See P218.
 
Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, New York, Master Drawings, 1879–1984, November 13–December [18], 1984 (catalogue). See W649.
Chivian-Cobb, Hermine, ed. Master Drawings, 1879–1984. Houston: Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1985.
 
Ecart Gallery, Geneva, Peinture abstraite, November 20–December 8, 1984. See W60.
 
1985
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Fort Worth Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: Stephen’s Iron Crown and Related Works, September 15–November 17, 1985 (catalogue). See P869, P1030, W147, W452, W542, W674.
Robert Motherwell: Stephen’s Iron Crown and Related Works. Preface by E. A. Carmean Jr. Fort Worth: Fort Worth Art Museum, 1985.
 
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Robert Motherwell: The Collaged Image, September 28–December 1, 1985; Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, January 18–March 2, 1986; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., April 5–June 22, 1986; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ind., July 26–September 21, 1986; Boston Athenaeum, January 5–March 1, 1987; Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich Library, Conn., May 7–June 21, 1987 (catalogue). See C44, C50, C67, C105, C126, C129, C266, C289, C422, C477, C701, C710. Reviewed in Eliasoph 1987, Friedman 1987, Taylor 1986, and Tucker 1987.
Flam, Jack. Robert Motherwell: The Collaged Image. Introduction by Elizabeth Armstrong. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1985.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice, Nove artisti della “Scuola di New York” alle Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, February 8–April 8, 1985 (catalogue). See C8.
Rylands, Phillip. Nove artisti della “Scuola di New York” alle Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia (text in English and Italian). Venice: Gallerie dell’Accademia, 1985.
 
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, March 1–April 28, 1985; San Diego Museum of Art, Calif., June 29–August 11, 1985; Portland Art Museum, Ore., October 1–November 10, 1985 (catalogue). See C38.
Baker, Richard Brown, and Laura Vookles. Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1985.
 
Fort Worth Art Museum, Grand Compositions: Selections from the Collection of David Mirvish, March 10–May 1, 1985 (catalogue). See P464, P565, P606, C5, C156.
Upright, Diane. Grand Compositions: Selections from the Collection of David Mirvish. Foreword by E. A. Carmean Jr. Fort Worth: Fort Worth Art Museum, 1985.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Modern American Masters, April 10–May 1985. See P804. Reviewed in Johnson 1985.
 
Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn’s Bounty: Natural Splendor and Domestic Opulence, April 16–June 5, 1985. See P1071. Reviewed in Brown 1985, Civic News 1985, Dinhofer 1985, Marzano 1985, and Shepard 1985.
 
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., Dorothy C. Miller: With an Eye to American Art, April 19–June 16, 1985 (catalogue). See C43, C129.
Dorothy C. Miller: With an Eye to American Art. Foreword by Charles Chetham; with contributions by Betsy B. Jones and Robert Rosenblum. Northampton, Mass.: Smith College Museum of Art, 1985.
 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, April 20–June 16, 1985 (catalogue). See P471.
Neff, Terry A. R., ed. Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1985.
 
Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I., Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939–1946, April 27–May 27, 1985, shown concurrently at the Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., April 27–May 27, 1985; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y., June 9–July 28, 1985 (catalogue). See P3, C40.
Versaci, Nancy R., Judith E. Tolnick, and Ellen Lawrence. Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939–1946. Introduction Kermit S. Champa. Providence, R.I.: Bell Gallery, Brown University, 1985.
 
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Cinquante ans de dessins américains, 1930–1980 (organized by the Menil Collection, Houston), May 3–July 13, 1985 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Cinquante ans de dessins américains, 1930–1980 (text in French). Preface by Francois Wehrlin; foreword by Dominique de Menil; introduction by Walter Hopps. Houston: Menil Foundation, 1985.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, New Acquisitions, May 4–30, 1985. See P372.
 
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Collage, May 30–June 1985 (catalogue). See C721.
Puig, Arnau. Collage. Translated by Joanna Martínez. Barcelona: Galería Joan Prats, 1985.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Group Show, summer 1985. See P372.
 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Drawing Acquisitions, 1981–1985, June 11–September 22, 1985 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). Drawings only.
Cummings, Paul. Drawing Acquisitions, 1981–1985. Foreword by Tom Armstrong. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.
 
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, American Abstract Painting, 1960–1980, June 19–August 24, 1985. See P509.
 
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany, Vom Klang der Bilder: Die Musik in der Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts, July 6–September 22, 1985 (catalogue). See C677.
Maur, Karin V., ed. Vom Klang der Bilder: Die Musik in der Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts (text in German). Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1985.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Tribute to Stanley Kunitz, July 14–27, 1985. See C718, C726. Reviewed in Fraser 1985, Samuelson 1985b, and Smith 1985.
 
Stephen Mazoh & Company, New York, Twentieth Century Works of Art, fall 1985 (catalogue). See P116.
Twentieth Century Works of Art. New York: Stephen Mazoh & Company, 1985.
 
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection (circulated by the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles), Israel Museum, Jerusalem, September 10–October 29, 1985; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, November 9–December 28, 1985; American Center and Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, February 18–April 20, 1986; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum, Lisbon, October 3–November 2, 1986; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 21, 1986–January 25, 1987; Baltimore Museum of Art, February 28–April 19, 1987; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 18–August 3, 1987; Birmingham Museum of Art, Ala., December 12, 1987–January 17, 1988; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., February 5–March 27, 1988; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colo., April 23–June 12, 1988; New Orleans Museum of Art, July 16–October 2, 1988; University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, November 11–December 14, 1988; Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Wash., January 6–February 12, 1989; Boise Art Museum, Idaho, April 15–June 11, 1989; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, August 28–October 22, 1989; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Va., November 17, 1989–January 29, 1990; Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., March 15–May 4, 1990; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, July 5–August 12, 1990 (catalogue). See P914.
Freshman, Phil, and Nora Halpern, eds. Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection. Preface by Henry T. Hopkins. Los Angeles: Frederick R. Weisman Collection, 1987.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Charcoal Drawings, 1880–1985, October 3–November 1985 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Charcoal Drawings, 1880–1985. Houston: Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1985.
 
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Abstract Expressionist Painters in Miami Collections, October 10–November 24, 1985. See P170, P232.
 
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, October 21, 1985–January 5, 1986 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See C21, C49.
Jones, Caroline A. Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums. Preface by John M. Rosenfield; essay by John Coolidge. New York: Abbeville Press; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.
 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Abstract Painting and Sculpture: 1950s–80s, October 22, 1985–April 13, 1986. See P137.
 
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Masters of the Fifties: American Abstract Painting from Pollock to Stella, October 23–December 28, 1985 (catalogue). See P177.
Hunter, Sam. Masters of the Fifties: American Abstract Painting from Pollock to Stella. New York: Marisa del Re Gallery, 1985.
 
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, Stiftung Sammlung Bernhard Sprengel III, November 10, 1985–January 5, 1986 (catalogue). See P907.
Stiftung Sammlung Bernhard Sprengel III (text in German). Hannover, Germany: Sprengel Museum, 1985.
 
Turske & Turske, Zurich, Works on Paper, November 23–December 7, 1985 (catalogue). See C521, C578, W558.
Works on Paper (text in English and German). Zurich: Turske & Turske, 1985.
 
Städtische Galerie, Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Amerikanische Zeichnungen, 1930–1980, November 28, 1985–January 26, 1986 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Gallwitz, Klaus, ed. Amerikanische Zeichnungen, 1930–1980 (text in German). Houston: Menil Foundation, 1985.
 
Phoenix Gallery, New York, Black on White, White on Black, December 22, 1985–January 14, 1986. See W107, W579, W657.
 
1986
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: New Work, April 15–May 8, 1986 (checklist). See P1092, P1096, P1098–P1100, P1114–P1116, P1138, C718, C725, C726, C728–C733, C736, C816. Reviewed in Mathew 1986, Raynor 1986, and Silverthorne 1986.
 
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Robert Motherwell, October 9–November 15, 1986; Palau Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 20–December 1986; Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid, March 12–May 2, 1987; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain, January 20–March 1, 1987 (venue catalogues). See P520, P521, P1016, P1086, P1091–P1093, P1095, P1097, P1101, P1111, P1112, P1115, P1123, C108, C649, C670–C673, C735. Reviewed in Campoy 1987, Chamorro 1986, Danvila 1987, Diario de Mallorca 1986, Erausquin 1987, Garesse 1987, Miralles 1986, Molina 1987, Parcerisas 1986, Permanyer ca. 1986, and Soler 1987.
Robert Motherwell (text in English, Spanish, and Catalan). Barcelona: Galería Joan Prats, 1986.
Robert Motherwell (text in English and Spanish). Essays by Stephanie Terenzio, Nissa Torrents, and Jack Flam. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Palau Solleric, 1986.
Robert Motherwell (text in Spanish). Essays by Stephanie Terenzio and Jack Flam. Bilbao, Spain: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 1987.
Robert Motherwell (text in Spanish). Madrid: Galería Juana Mordó, 1987.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, January 12–March 30, 1986 (catalogue). See P154.
Daniel, Malcolm R., Harry F. Gaugh, Sam Hunter, Karen Koehler, Kim Levin, Robert C. Morgan, and Richard Sarnoff. An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940. Edited with an introduction by Sam Hunter. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, 1986.
 
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Pintar con Papel, January 23–March 14, 1986 (catalogue). See C721.
Pintar con Papel (text in Spanish). Introduction by Rosa Queralt. Madrid: Círculo de Bellas Artes, 1986.
 
Century Association, New York, From the Collection of Centurion André Emmerich, February 5–20, 1986. See W172.
 
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art of Collecting Modern Art, February 12–March 30, 1986 (catalogue). See P159, C454, C463, C605.
Henning, Edward B. The Art of Collecting Modern Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986.
 
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Revolt in Boston: Fear vs. Freedom, February 18–April 20, 1986 (catalogue). See P85.
Sussman, Elisabeth, Reinhold Heller, Serge Guilbaut, David Joselit, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art. Foreword by David A. Ross. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, in association with Northeastern University Press, 1986.
 
Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, New York, Master Drawings, 1918–1985, spring 1986 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Chivian-Cobb, Hermine, ed. Master Drawings, 1918–1985. New York: Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, 1986.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, [group exhibition], March 7, 1986 (end date unknown). See P496, C722.
 
Queens Museum, N.Y., After Matisse (organized by Independent Curators, New York), March 30–May 25, 1986; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., September 11–November 9, 1986; Portland Museum of Art, Maine, December 9, 1986–February 9, 1987; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, March 17–May 17, 1987; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., June 19–August 14, 1987; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, September 12–November 8, 1987; Worcester Art Museum, Mass., December 9, 1987–February 7, 1988 (catalogue). See C698. Reviewed in Lipson 1986.
Bell, Tiffany, Dore Ashton, and Irving Sandler. After Matisse. New York: Independent Curators, 1986.
 
Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France, La Planète affolée: Surréalisme dispersion et influences, 1938–1947, April 12–June 30, 1986 (catalogue). See C8.
Noël, Bernard, José Pierre, Georges Raillard, Michel Fauré, Alfredo Cruz-Ramirez, Martica Sawin, Edouard Jaguer, Sarah Wilson, José Vovelle, Peter Shield, Ragnar von Holten, et al. La Planète affolée: Surréalisme dispersion et influences, 1938–1947 (text in French). Marseille, France: Direction des Musées de Marseille; Paris: Editions Flammarion, 1986.
 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, 101 Masterworks, April 19–August 17, 1986 (catalogue). See P851.
Hobbs, Robert. 101 Masterworks. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Yellow, June 29–July 19, 1986. See C116.
 
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Qu’est-ce que la sculpture moderne? July 3–October 13, 1986 (catalogue). See P236.
Rowell, Margit. Qu’est-ce que la sculpture moderne? (text in French). Paris: Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1986.
 
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938–1948, July 16–September 14, 1986; Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, November 13, 1986–January 21, 1987; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 15–April 19, 1987 (catalogue). See C5, C22.
Alloway, Lawrence, Dore Ashton, Robert C. Hobbs, Philip Leider, Mollie McNickle, Martica Sawin, and Paul Schimmel. The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism; Works on Paper, 1938–1948. Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1986.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Tribute to Arthur Berger, July 20–August 9, 1986. See C738. Reviewed in Nickerson 1986.
 
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, [September–October] 1986; Queens Museum, N.Y., November 22, 1986–January 4, 1987; Burling Library, Grinnell, Iowa, [January] 1988; Cincinnati Art Museum, March 15–April 6, 1988; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., September 1987; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 17–December 6, 1987 (catalogue). See W470.
Nygren, Edward J., and Linda Crocker Simmons. American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Color on Paper, September 9–October 4, 1986 (checklist). See C693, W16.
 
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, The Window in Twentieth-Century Art, September 21, 1986–January 18, 1987; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, April 24–June 29, 1987 (catalogue). See P4, P496. Reviewed in Raynor 1987 and Waterfall 1986.
Blum, Shirley Nielsen, and Suzanne Delehanty. The Window in Twentieth-Century Art. Purchase: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, 1986.
 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects Art since 1940, September 28–November 30, 1986 (catalogue). See P12, P481.
Rosenthal, Mark, and Ann Percy. Philadelphia Collects Art since 1940. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986.
 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selected 20th Century Paintings, September 28–November 2, 1986 (permanent collection exhibition). See P218.
 
Lamont Gallery, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., An die Musik: The Painter’s Music, The Musician’s Art, October 10–November 9, 1986. See P419, C630, C631.
 
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Conn., Connecticut Masters, November 8, 1986 (end date unknown; brochure). See C507.
Connecticut Masters. Waterbury, Conn.: Mattatuck Museum, 1986.
 
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Robert Motherwell/Jim Bird, November–December 1986; Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid, March 12–April 1987. See C174, C742, C743, C745–C748, W562, W579, W599, W606, W621, W667, W668, W675.
Torrents, Nissa. Robert Motherwell/Jim Bird (text in Spanish). Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Sala Pelaires, 1986.
 
Two Hundred Years of American Art: The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (circulated by the Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Ala., November 15, 1986–January 10, 1987; R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, La., January 21–March 18, 1987; Tucson Museum of Art, Ariz., March 28–June 7, 1987; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, W.Va., June 19–August 7, 1987; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, September 19–November 14, 1987; San Antonio Museum of Art, Tex., December 19, 1987–February 13, 1988; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, March 12–May 7, 1988 (catalogue). See P153.
Craven, Wayne, and Richard Martin. Two Hundred Years of American Art: The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Foreword by Paul D. Schweizer. San Francisco: Art Museum Association of America, 1986.
 
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., Collecting: A Texas Phenomenon, November 23–December 24, 1986 (catalogue). See W452.
Collecting: A Texas Phenomenon. San Antonio, Tex.: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1986.
 
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, Text and Image: The Wording of American Art, December 11, 1986–January 3, 1987. See C685.
 
1987
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Century Club, New York, Robert Motherwell, January 5–February 27, 1987 (checklist). See C501.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Robert Motherwell: Major Works from the 1980’s, May 2–28, 1987 (checklist). See P1024, P1063, P1082, P1132, P1136–P1138. Reviewed in Ruhe 1987 and Russell 1987.
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gifts of Works on Paper by Robert Motherwell, December 11, 1987–February 23, 1988 (checklist). See P680, P682, P683, C810, W16, W125, W547, W571, W582, W628–W630. Reviewed in N. 1987 and Zaya 1987.
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
Postwar Paintings from Brandeis University (organized by the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., and circulated by the Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco), Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, January 16–March 13, 1987; University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 29–May 24, 1987; Tucson Museum of Art, Ariz., September 13–November 8, 1987; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Calif., January 17–March 13, 1988; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Ariz., April 15–June 12, 1988 (catalogue). See P218.
Belz, Carl, and Beth Goldberg. Postwar Paintings from Brandeis University. Foreword by Myrna Smoot and Harold B. Nelson. San Francisco: Art Museum Association of America, 1987.
 
Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wis., The Draughtsman’s Process: Master Drawings from the Milwaukee Art Museum, January 17–February 28, 1987; Monroe Art Center, Wis., March 16–April 24, 1987; Pump House, La Crosse, Wis., May 2–June 28, 1987; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wis., October 4–November 2, 1987; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wis., November 7–December 31, 1987; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wis., January 31–March 6, 1988 [catalogue]. See W208.
 
Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, New York, Ink Drawings, 1890–1986, February–March 1987 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Chivian-Cobb, Hermine, ed. Ink Drawings, 1890–1986. New York: Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, 1987.
 
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Connecticut Artists, March 1–September 6, 1987. See C645.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Peggy Guggenheim’s Other Legacy, March 6–May 3, 1987; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, October 31, 1987–January 10, 1988 (catalogue). See P3, P11, C4, C7. Reviewed in Loughery 1987.
Lader, Melvin P., and Fred Licht. Peggy Guggenheim’s Other Legacy. Preface by Thomas M. Messer. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1987.
 
Worcester Art Museum, Mass., American Traditions in Watercolor: The Worcester Art Museum Collection, March 8–May 10, 1987; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 17–November 22, 1987; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, December 13, 1987–February 14, 1988 (catalogue). Drawings only.
Strickler, Susan E., Donelson Hoopes, and Judith C. Walsh. American Traditions in Watercolor: The Worcester Art Museum Collection. Edited by Susan R. Strickler; preface by Kenneth H. Olsen; foreword by James A. Welu. New York: Abbeville Press, in association with Worcester Art Museum, 1987.
 
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Calif., Masterpieces from the Phillips Collection, March 21–May 17, 1987; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Selections from the Phillips Collection, June 13–August 30, 1987. See C129.
 
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, Opening Exhibition, April 11–May 9, 1987. Works unknown.
 
Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., The Arts at Black Mountain, 1933–1957, April 11–July 5, 1987; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, July 25–October 4, 1987; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, November 2–December 19, 1987 (catalogue). Drawings only. Reviewed in Wade 1987.
Harris, Mary Emma. The Arts at Black Mountain, 1933–1957. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987.
 
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Drawings, 1944–1954, April 17–June 17, 1987. Works unknown.
 
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn., The Art of Collecting: A Private View, May 10–June 21, 1987 (catalogue). See C542. Reviewed in Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time 1987.
Simpson, Edith J., and Nancy Hall-Duncan. The Art of Collecting: A Private View. Preface by John B. Clark. Greenwich, Conn.: Bruce Museum, 1987.
 
Art Galleries, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, May 20–June 14, 1987 (catalogue). See P735, P924, C676.
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards. New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1987.
 
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y., American Masters, May 25–June 28, 1987. See W65.
 
Helmhaus Zürich, Fitzwilliam: A Cambridge Collection of Music, May 28–August 10, 1987. See C677.
 
Knoedler & Company, New York, Art against AIDS, June 4–19, 1987 (catalogue). See C653.
Art against AIDS. Preface by Elizabeth Taylor; foreword by Mathilde Krim; essay by Robert Rosenblum. New York: American Foundation for AIDS Research, 1987.
 
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Leo Castelli y sus artistas: XXX años de promocion del arte contemporaneo, June 26–October 18, 1987 (catalogue). See P47.
Littman, Roberto, Calvin Tompkins, Robert Pincus-Witten, and Judith Goldman. Leo Castelli y sus artistas: XXX años de promocion del arte contemporaneo (text in Spanish). Mexico City: Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales, 1987.
 
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., Recent Acquisitions, 1977–1987, July 17–September 17, 1987 (permanent collection exhibition). See C687.
 
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Mass., Homeric Themes, August 9–22, 1987. See W669, W695, W696. Reviewed in Bonetti 1987 and Nickerson 1987.
 
Charles Cowles Annex Gallery, New York, Stanford Artists in New York, September 15–October 7, 1987 (catalogue). See P1113.
Stanford Artists in New York. New York: Friends of Stanford Artists in New York, 1987.
 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860–1960, September 16–November 8, 1987 (catalogue). See C11.
Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860–1960. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments, September 19–November 29, 1987 (catalogue). See P154, P156, P170, P210, C46. Reviewed in Brenson 1987.
Auping, Michael, Ann Gibson, Donald Kuspit, Michael Leja, Marcelin Pleynet, Richard Shiff, and David Sylvester. Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments. New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987.
 
James Goodman Gallery, New York, Strong Statements in Black and White, October 6–31, 1987. See P1193.
 
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Contemporary American Collage, 1960–1986, November 9–December 11, 1987; William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Conn., January 24–March 7, 1988; Lehigh University Galleries, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., March 27–May 8, 1988; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 11–October 23, 1988; Kansas City Art Institute, Mo., November 14–December 24, 1988; University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, January 24–March 6, 1989; Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, March 27–May 8, 1989 (catalogue). See C644.
Coblyn, Michael E., and Trevor Richardson. Contemporary American Collage, 1960–1986. Amherst: Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, 1987.
 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection; Painting since World War II: Europe, Latin America, North America, November 13, 1987–January 10, 1988 (catalogue). See P607.
Messer, Thomas M. Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection; Painting since World War II: Europe, Latin America, North America. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1987.
 
Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vt., From the Collection: Selected Works from the Bennington College Permanent Collection, November 17–December 10, 1987 (permanent collection exhibition; checklist). See C94.
 
Turske & Turske, Zurich, Das Kleine Format, December 4, 1987–February 2, 1988. See W516.
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Intimate Gestures, Realized Visions: Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, December 12, 1987–January 31, 1988 (permanent collection exhibition; catalogue). See C498.
Brutvan, Cheryl A., Anita Coles Costello, and Helen Raye. Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Entry “Robert Motherwell,” by Cheryl A. Brutvan, p. 114. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987.
 
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