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THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

For Release Immediately
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10028, 360-3500

PRESS REVIEW:
Thursday, December 6, 1984
10 a.m. to noon

RETROSPECTIVE OF ROBERT MOTHERWELL'S WORKS TO BE SHOWN AT GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

The work of the American Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell will be on view in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from December 7, 1984, through February 3, 1985. Robert Motherwell, an exhibition of approximately 150 works that range in date from 1941 to the present, includes important examples of each of the major themes the artist has pursued throughout his career. The presentation at the Guggenheim brings together the 92 paintings and collages previously shown in the traveling exhibition with approximately 60 additional works -- including many drawings and some prints -- that were selected by Motherwell and Diane Waldman, Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum, from the artist's own collection especially for the New York venue. Many of these additions have never been exhibited before, and most will be included in a special installation in the Museum's High Gallery.

The exhibition was organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and is made possible by grants from the IBM Corporation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1915 and studied painting briefly as a student in California. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University, writing his undergraduate thesis on psychoanalytic theory. During a tour of Europe in 1935 he became interested in French literature and wrote on André Gide. In 1937 he enrolled in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University to study aesthetics. In 1940, after visiting Europe again, he moved to