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participate in the exhibition of American graphics prepared by the United States government for the Venice Biennale. Participates in meetings of the Art Workers' coalition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lectures at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; and at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Paints a new large "Elegy to the Spanish Republic". During the winter, makes a large number of etchings and lithographs in the workshops of Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York. Becomes a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Exhibition at the David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto. Included in an exhibition organized by Doré Ashton "L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis", at the Fondation Maeght, St. Paul-de-Vence, France. Represented by twelve paintings in the exhibition "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940 to 1970", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on the occasion of the museum's centenary. Included in the same museum's traveling exhibition, "Prints by Four New York Painters" (together with Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, and Barnett Newman). 1971 Exhibits at the Galerie Im Erker Saint-Gallen, Switzerland [[image]] 48 • Blueness of Blue, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 84" (183 x 213,5 cm) Signed and dated u. I.: R Motherwell Feb 74 Courtesy Emmerich Gallery, Zürich $ 35,000.- "Robert Motherwell: Bilder und Collagen 1967-1970". Exhibits at the Kunstverein, Freiburg, Germany. Decides to live year round in recently restored carriage house in Greenwich, Connecticut. Writes introduction for first two volumes of The Documents of 20th-Century Art series: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, "My Galleries and Painters" and Pierre Cabanne, "Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp", as well as for the republication of "The Journal of Eugène Delacroix" (The Viking Press). Named Distinguished Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York and appointed consultant, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Subject of a television documentary for West German TV, filmed by Blackwood Productions, Inc. Vacations in Juan-les-Pins and Honfleur. Joints "The Artist as Adversary" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1972 Completes his "livre d'artiste" (aquatints accompanying Rafael Alberti's volume of poems "A la pintura") at the workshop of Universal Limited Art Editions, Long Island. Book exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Museum, University of Iowa; Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C., and a score of other museums in the U.S.A., Europe and Mexico. [[image]] 49 • Summer Open, With Mediterranean Blue, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 108" (122 x 274 cm) Courtesy Emmerich Gallery, Zürich $40,000.- Donates to Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc., a lithographic edition. Marries Renate Ponsold, a German photographer. Travels to London; Münster, Germany; and St.-Gallen, Switzerland. At the "Im Erker-Presse", St.-Gallen, he works on an edition of lithographs. "The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition", is held at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and then travels to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Shows recent paintings in several different exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York; Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit. Western Association of Art Museums select works from "Lyric Suite" for exhibition, which was shown during 1972-1974 in dozens of museums in the United States and Canada. Included in "Abstract Paintings in the Seventies", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; "Masters of the Sixties", Edmonton Art Gallery and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada. Begins series "In Plato's Cave". Filmed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. 1973 "Robert Motherwell: Recent Works", Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Huge exhibition with extensive catalogue, edited by Sam Hunter. Included in "American Art at [[image]] 50 • Premonition Open, With Flesh over Grey Acrylic on canvas 72 x 84" (183 x 213,5 cm) Courtesy M. Knoedler & Co., New York $35,000.- Mid-Century I", National Gallery of Art, Washington, and "American Art: Third Quarter Century" Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle. Goes to Los Angeles in March, where he works on series of lithgraphic editions at Gemini Workshop. Exhibits various shows at Amerika-Haus, Berlin; David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; and Marlborough Graphics, Inc. New York. Commences new series, "Shem the Penman". Receives Honorary Doctorate from Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York. Purchases etching press, and begins own editions in his Greenwich studio. Participates in panel on Abstract Expressionism at College Art Association annual meeting, New York. Receives reappointment as Educational Adviser to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (four-year term). Hospitalized during months of June and July at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. 1974 "Robert Motherwell: Selected Prints (1961-1974)", Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York; travels in both the United States and Canada. Catalogue subsequently awarded first prize by the American Library Association for the most outstanding catalogue to be published by a private gallery that year. 51 Dover Beach III, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 77 x 96" (195,5 x 244 cm) Signed and dated u.l.: Motherwell November 74 Coll. Barbier-Müller, Genève 111
