Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington, United States on January 24th, 1915 and is the Painter. At the age of 76, Robert Motherwell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printer, and editor.
He was one of the youngest students of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
Early life and education
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank but then returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth. Lance Wood Hart, painter and art instructor who became Motherwel's early mentor, was another Aberdeen native with a home in Cohasset Beach. Motherwell was largely raised on the coast of California due to the artist's asthmatic illness and spent the majority of his school years in California. He developed a passion for the wide spaces and brilliant colors that later became essential features of his abstract paintings (ultramarine blue of the sky and yellow ochre of Californian hills). His later concern with mortality can also be traced to his frailty as an infant.
Motherwell studied painting at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, for a brief period of time, before receiving a BA in philosophy from Stanford University in 1932. Motherwell's extensive reading of symbolist and other literature, including Mallarmé, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, and Octavio Paz, was introduced to modernism at Stanford University. This passion followed him through the remainder of his life and became a main theme in his later paintings and drawings.
Motherwell, along with his father and sister, on a grand tour of Europe at the age of 20, enjoyed a grand tour of Europe. They began in Paris and then moved to Amalfi, Italy. Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and London were among the next stops on the tour. The group came to a stop in Motherwell, Scotland, after a tour was completed.
According to Motherwell, the reason he came to Harvard was that he wanted to paint, but his dad insisted that I should have a Ph.D. so he could teach in a college as an economic insurance, he would have to spend fifty dollars a week for the remainder of my life." So with that decided on Harvard, it was really the last year—Harvard's best philosophy school in the country—but the best philosophy school in the country still had the best philosophy school. I had earned my Ph.D. degree at Stanford University in philosophy, but since he didn't care what the Ph.D. was in, I went straight to Harvard.
Motherwell studied under Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and David Wite Prall at Harvard University. Under Meyer Schapiro, he spent a year in Paris to study Eugène Delacroix's writings, where he advised American composer Arthur Berger, who encouraged him to continue his education at Columbia University. Lance Wood Hart, then a professor of drawing and painting at the University of Oregon, invited Motherwell to join him in Eugene, OR, to help teach his classes for a full semester.