The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics

Summary information

Date

Thu Oct 30 1980 until Tue Dec 16 1980

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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Concurrent exhibitions

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September 1980

October 1980

November 1980

December 1980

January 1981

February 1981

The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics

West/East: First Generation Environmental Sculptures

Film (Fall 1980): "Undercover Blues" Film Installation by Benni Efrat

Photography (Fall 1980): Assembled Images

Architecture (Fall 1980): Lars Lerup

Poetry (Fall 1980): Barbara Guest

Fashion (Fall 1980): Ronald Kolodzie

Special Projects (Fall 1980)

Video (Fall 1980): Landscape in Video

Sound (Winter 1980–1981): Ken Friedman

Film (Winter 1980–1981): Roger Welch: Drive-In

Special Projects (Winter 1980–1981)

Watercolors

International Studio Program (Winter 1980–1981)

Video (Winter 1980–1981): Dan Graham

Fashion (Winter 1980–1981): Julio

Photography (Winter 1980–1981): Barbara Kruger

Poetry (Winter 1980–1981): Max Blagg and Ken Tisa

Architecture (Winter 1980–1981): Red Roof Design

Lillian Gish

Selections from the Art Lending Service

William Klein

Terry Fox: Room Temperature

Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries

A Penthouse Aviary

Joseph Cornell

Dan Graham: 2 Viewing Rooms

Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1921–1941

International Studio Program 1980–1981 (Fall 1980)

Ruth Ann Fredenthal

Allen Ruppersberg

Postpuritanism: A Sculpture Show

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1980-09	1982-03	West/East: First Generation Environmental Sculptures
2	1980-09	1980-11	Film (Fall 1980): "Undercover Blues" Film Installation by Benni Efrat
3	1980-09	1980-11	Photography (Fall 1980): Assembled Images
4	1980-09	1980-11	Architecture (Fall 1980): Lars Lerup
5	1980-09	1980-11	Poetry (Fall 1980): Barbara Guest
6	1980-09	1980-11	Fashion (Fall 1980): Ronald Kolodzie
7	1980-09	1980-11	Special Projects (Fall 1980)
8	1980-10	1980-11	Video (Fall 1980): Landscape in Video
9	1980-12	1981-01	Sound (Winter 1980–1981): Ken Friedman
10	1980-12	1981-01	Film (Winter 1980–1981): Roger Welch: Drive-In
11	1980-12	1981-01	Special Projects (Winter 1980–1981)
12	1980-12	1981-01	Watercolors
13	1980-12	1981-01	International Studio Program (Winter 1980–1981)
14	1980-12	1981-01	Video (Winter 1980–1981): Dan Graham
15	1980-12	1981-02	Fashion (Winter 1980–1981): Julio
16	1980-12	1981-01	Photography (Winter 1980–1981): Barbara Kruger
17	1980-12	1981-01	Poetry (Winter 1980–1981): Max Blagg and Ken Tisa
18	1980-12	1981-01	Architecture (Winter 1980–1981): Red Roof Design

#	Start	End	Title
1	1980-09	1980-11	Lillian Gish
2	1980-10	1980-11	Selections from the Art Lending Service
3	1980-10	1981-01	William Klein
4	1980-10	1980-12	Terry Fox: Room Temperature
5	1980-10	1981-01	Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
6	1980-11	1981-01	A Penthouse Aviary
7	1980-11	1981-01	Joseph Cornell
8	1980-12	1981-01	Dan Graham: 2 Viewing Rooms
9	1980-12	1981-02	Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1921–1941

#	Start	End	Title
1	1980-09	1980-11	International Studio Program 1980–1981 (Fall 1980)
2	1980-10	1980-11	Ruth Ann Fredenthal
3	1980-10	1980-11	Allen Ruppersberg
4	1980-11	1980-12	Postpuritanism: A Sculpture Show

Artists

There were 2 persons who influenced this exhibition.

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Robert Motherwell

Biographical statement American, 1915–1991

Born 1915 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1991

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Robert Motherwell

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Robert Motherwell was involved in 101 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 23 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 3 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1945-02	1945-03	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
3	1946-02	1946-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture
4	1946-09	1946-12	MoMA	Fourteen Americans
5	1948-09	1948-12	MoMA	Collage
6	1948-12	1949-03	MoMA	American Paintings from the Museum Collection
7	1949-10	1950-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-03	1950-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1951-01	1951-03	MoMA	Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
3	1951-06	1951-09	MoMA	Selections from 5 New York Private Collections
4	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
5	1955-02		MoMA	[Penthouse Exhibition]
6	1957-03	1957-04	MoMA	Recent American Acquisitions
7	1958-04	1958-05	Rockefeller Guest House	50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss
8	1959-05	1959-09	MoMA	The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1961-08	1962-04	MoMA	Modern Paintings
2	1961-10	1961-11	MoMA	The Art of Assemblage
3	1961-12	1962-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
4	1964-05	1964-07	MoMA	American Painters as New Lithographers
5	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
6	1964-09	1964-10	MoMA	Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
7	1965-05	1965-07	MoMA	American Collages
8	1965-10	1965-11	MoMA	Robert Motherwell
9	1966-02		MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
10	1966-11	1966-11	MoMA	Americans Today: 25 Painters as Printmakers
11	1967-03		MoMA	Members Collect Retrospective Exhibition
12	1967-03	1967-05	MoMA	Members Collect
13	1967-12	1968-09	MoMA	Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings
14	1969-02	1969-03	MoMA	Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
15	1969-05	1969-09	MoMA	Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
16	1969-06	1969-10	MoMA	The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
17	1969-09	1969-10	MoMA	Robert Motherwell: Lyric Suite
18	1969-11	1973-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
19	1969-12	1970-03	MoMA	American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-02	1971-03	MoMA	Recent American Acquisitions
2	1971-05	1971-10	MoMA	A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
3	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
4	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	Summer Show
5	1971-07		MoMA	Summer Penthouse
6	1971-07	1971-11	MoMA	Ways of Looking
7	1971-11	1971-11	MoMA	American Prints from the International Program
8	1972-03	1972-05	MoMA	Drawn in America
9	1972-03		MoMA	Permanent Collection
10	1972-10	1973-02	MoMA	Etchings Etc.
11	1973-06	1973-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions, 1968–1973
12	1974-12	1975-03	MoMA	American Prints: 1913–1963
13	1975-04	1975-05	Clocktower Gallery	Collectors of the Seventies, Part I: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
14	1975-09	1975-12	MoMA	76 Jefferson
15	1976-06	1976-09	MoMA	Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works
16	1976-11	1977-02	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976
17	1977-01	1977-03	MoMA	Posters by Painters
18	1977-02	1977-04	MoMA	Maps
19	1978-04	1978-07	MoMA	Art for Corporations
20	1978-11	1979-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: American Prints
21	1979-04	1979-07	MoMA	David Hockney: The Blue Guitar

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-02	1980-04	MoMA	Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
2	1980-03		MoMA	Selections from the ALS
3	1980-03	1980-05	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
4	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
5	1980-10	1980-12	MoMA	The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics
6	1980-11	1981-01	MoMA	A Penthouse Aviary
7	1981-09		MoMA	Handmade Paper
8	1981-10	1982-01	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions 1977–1981
9	1982-03	1982-03	British Museum	A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981
10	1982-03	1983-03	MoMA	Masterpieces from the Collection
11	1982-06	1982-10	MoMA	For 25 Years: Prints from ULAE
12	1983-10	1984-01	MoMA	The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
13	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
14	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
15	1985-09	1986-02	MoMA	Tatyana Grosman Gallery Inaugural Installation
16	1985-11	1986-04	MoMA	Contemporary Works from the Collection
17	1987-05	1987-07	MoMA	American Prints, 1960–1985
18	1987-06	1987-10	MoMA	Drawing since 1940
19	1987-11	1988-03	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
20	1987-12	1988-02	MoMA	Gifts of Works on Paper by Robert Motherwell
21	1988-11	1989-02	MoMA	Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection
22	1988-11	1989-03	MoMA	Abstractions
23	1989-04	1989-08	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1992-01	1992-04	MoMA	The William S. Paley Collection
3	1993-07		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
4	1994-01	1994-05	MoMA	For 25 Years: Brook Alexander Editions
5	1994-09	1995-01	MoMA	Drawing in Black and White: A Selection of Contemporary Works from the Collection
6	1994-10	1995-01	MoMA	A Century of Artists Books
7	1995-05	1995-09	MoMA	Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995
8	1995-09	1996-01	MoMA	Impressions of Nature
9	1998-01	1998-04	MoMA	From the Collection: Drawing in Latin America
10	1998-02	1998-05	MoMA	Artists and Subjects: Picasso to Stella
11	1998-09	1999-01	MoMA	The New York School
12	1998-10	1999-02	MoMA	Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America
13	1999-04	1999-10	MoMA	Post-war to Pop: Masterworks from MoMA's Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2002-06	2004-09	MoMA	To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
2	2004-11		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
3	2006-01	2006-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006
4	2007-01	2007-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2007
5	2008-01	2008-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes
6	2008-01	2008-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2008
7	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-10	2011-04	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture
2	2010-10	2011-02	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club 1942–1962
3	2012-01	2012-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012

Sigizmund Valishevskii (Zigmund Waliszewsky)

The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics

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Clocktower Gallery

Artists

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Robert Motherwell

Exhibitions

1940s (7)

1950s (8)

1960s (19)

1970s (21)

1980s (23)

1990s (13)

2000s (7)

2010s (3)

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