untitled (Red, Blue and Black)

Robert Motherwell, artist

1915–1991

untitled (Red, Blue and Black), 1975

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: soft-ground etching; lift-ground; color aquatint; Rives BFK™ paper

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 655 x 497 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 13/16 x 19 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Friends of Art Museum and National Endowment for the Arts

Accession number: 1978.0122

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Archive Label 1999:
Robert Motherwell, a central figure in the abstract expressionist movement, was one of the few abstract expressionists who extensively applied the spontaneous gestural style of his paintings to the graphic media. Like Minna Citron, Motherwell made his first prints in the early 1940s at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17. Throughout the 1950s, he focused on painting, drawing, and collage. Beginning in the early 1960s, he applied collage to the print medium, evident in the black aquatint with a collage red Roth-Handle cigarette label. In the last two decades of his life, Motherwell created more than 200 prints.