ROBERT MOTHERWELL "CARPETA," LITHOGRAPH & COLLAGE, 1986Robert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world. Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing and editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. Motherwell's

He is one of the most beloved figures in the Color-Field movement

Katz's renderings are clear--his seeing and drawing a single

The result is a playful

With one foot in reality and the other in the subconscious

it's no wonder Picasso was so playful with his clay creations

this series evokes the palette and mood of Op Art

Guggenheim Foundation

dancing sunlight over the lake's expanse

and travel internationally

even brooding

others feature the melancholic

23"H 17"W (sheet)