Robert Motherwell painting the Reconciliation Elegy

Motherwell begins to work with the photographer Steven Sloman to document his work and studio practices for the monograph being prepared by H. H. Arnason. Sloman will visit the studio approximately every three months during the next year to photograph both old and new works. He will continue in this role well beyond the publication, serving as the primary photographer of Motherwell’s work...

If he wasn’t exactly an “action painter” like Jackson Pollock, was Robert Motherwell a “mythmaker” in the sense of his other colleagues Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman, all of whom reinvestigated archetypes and ancient motivations in their initial...