Robert Motherwell : The East Hampton Years, 1944-1952

Exhibition at the Guild Hall, East Hampton (New York), 9 August - 13 October 2014

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) enjoyed early recognition. At 29 years, he had his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery (1944). A year later he moved to East Hampton and commissioned a house from French architect Pierre Chareau.

This exhibition catalogue is the first one to focus on the artist's East Hampton years and on the place where he came of age as an artist. He produced paintings, collages, and drawings that brought abstraction into the lingua franca of art created on the American side of the Atlantic. It also explores how Motherwell used Surrealist techniques to make his abstractions and uncovers the influence of Picasso and Matisse on his early work.