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| Robert Motherwell Personage (Autoportrait) 1943 collage, gouache and ink on board Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Robert Motherwell Three Figures Shot 1944 watercolor and ink on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Collage no. 2 1945 collage and oil on board Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Motherwell Figure in Black 1947 collage and oil on board Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Motherwell The Red Skirt 1947 oil on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Afternoon in Barcelona 1958 acrylic and oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Iberia 1958 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao |
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| Robert Motherwell Monster (for Charles Ives) 1959 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Motherwell N.R.F. Collage no. 1 1959 collage and oil on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell N.R.F. Collage no. 2 1960 collage and oil on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell The Golden Fleece 1961 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Robert Motherwell Lithograph 1966 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Gauloises Bleues 1968 aquatint, etching and collage Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Open 101: Big Orange 1968-69 acrylic on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic #110 1971 graphite, charcoal and acrylic on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Robert Motherwell Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra 1973 lithograph (poster) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Motherwell Untitled 1975 color etching and aquatint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Motherwell Wave 1989 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Robert Motherwell Seaside Studio 1990 color etching and aquatint Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Robert Motherwell Mostly Mozart Festival - Lincoln Center 1991 screenprint and letterpress (poster) Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Robert Motherwell Barcelona Elegy to the Spanish Republic 1991 color etching Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
from Flying from Byzantium
The hour has come. I'm heading home.
We take a cab to the airdrome
In time for the last brandy.
I've kept my Kodak handy
To snap the last unfocused Kodachrome.
Our linen's at the laundromat.
What will become of the gray cat
I'd rather not conjecture.
As for my regular lecture
– Kindness to Animals – I'll spare you that.
But a near lightning sheets the brain.
I cannot take your hand for pain.
Your brows knit above lonely
Filling eyes. If only
I thought that I would look in them again!
Crack! Mountain lurches, villas tilt,
Pale green coves right themselves unspilt
But smaller oh and faster,
Pace of the young ringmaster
Whipping to shreds of cloud a world he built.
– James Merrill (1969)