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뉴욕공립도서관 본관 로버트 마더웰 판화전 'Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio'

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Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio

March 22 - August 2, 2025

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Wachenheim Gallery

Fifth Avenue and 42nd St., New York

Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio, 2025, New York Public Library

뉴욕공립도서관 42 스트리트 본관에서 미 추상표현주의 화가 로버트 마더웰(Robert Motherwell, 1915-1991)의 특별전 'At Home and in the Studio'(3/22-8/2)이 열리고 있다. 이 전시엔 1960년대부터 1991년 그의 사망 때까지 제작된 판화와 그의 서재에 보관되었던 주석이 달린 책을 함께 소개한다. 잭슨 폴락, 윌렘 드 쿠닝, 프란츠 클라인 등과 함께 뉴욕학파에 속했던 마더웰은 가장 지성적인 화가였다.

Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio, 2025, New York Public Library

1915년 워싱턴주 애버딘에서 은행장의 아들로 태어나 캘리포니아 미대에서 회화를 공부하다가 스탠포드로 전학해 철학을 전공했다. 이 시절 상징주의와 말라르메, 제임스 조이스, 에드가 알란 포, 옥타비오 파스 등을 읽으며 모더니즘에 입문했다. 20대엔 가족과 파리-이탈리아 아말피, 스위스, 독일, 네덜란드, 런던, 스코틀랜드로 여행했다. 이후 아버지의 권유로 하버드대에 진학 철학을 공부했다. 철학적 바탕은 그의 추상 어휘의 바탕이 된다. 마더웰은 1958년 동료 화가 헬렌 프랑켄탈러(Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011)와 결혼했다가 1971년 이혼했다.

Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio, 2025, New York Public Library

Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio

February 19, 2025—On March 22, The New York Public Library will open an exhibition of a selection of Robert Motherwell’s prints from the 1960s to 1991, alongside annotated books from his private library. Taken together, the prints and books illuminate how Motherwell’s literary influences helped inspire his artistic process and signature style. The prints and titles on display were gifted to The New York Public Library by the artist’s family and the Dedalus Foundation, which Motherwell established in 1981 to enhance the public understanding and appreciation of modern art and the principles of Modernism.

“The prints and books in this gift reflect the broad range of Motherwell’s interests,” said Katy Rogers, President of the Dedalus Foundation, “and show how intensely he was engaged with both art and literature, which informed his creation of one of the most varied, complex, and vital bodies of work in modern art.”

Raised on the West Coast, Motherwell (1915-1991) studied literature and philosophy at Stanford University where he cultivated a lifelong admiration of James Joyce, Federico García Lorca, Stéphane Mallarmé, Octavio Paz, and a wide range of philosophers and composers. It wasn’t until he moved to New York in 1940, where he was introduced to Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and other European artists in exile, that he truly devoted himself to his art practice. Seizing on the principles of automatic drawing, Motherwell began plumbing his subconscious for artistic inspiration and developing what would later become his signature pictorial language. His style and creative approach helped inaugurate a new art movement – Abstract Expressionism – and continues to influence artists today.

In addition to painting, Motherwell was a prolific printmaker, referring to paper as “the most sympathetic of all painting surfaces.” Robert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio, comprised of 24 prints gifted from the Dedalus Foundation, 14 volumes from his private library gifted from the family, and video clips of Motherwell working in his Greenwich, Connecticut studio, offers an intimate glimpse into Motherwell’s passion for both prints and the printed word. Volumes on display include Joyce’s Ulysses and a heavily annotated copy of Otto Rank’s Art & Artist, while the prints span the period from 1962 to 1991.

“Motherwell was unique among his artworld contemporaries in that he was also an editor, critic, writer, and teacher. This exhibition heralds him as a prolific reader alongside the trajectory of his printmaking process,” said Clare Bell, Associate Director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs at the New York Public Library.

Robert Motherwell: At Home and In the Studio will open simultaneously with Dynamic Duos: The Art of Working in Pairs, marking the first time in the history of the Library that two exhibitions devoted to the visual arts are on display at the same time, underscoring the Library’s growing arts collections.

“For over a century, The New York Public Library has championed discovery, creativity, and learning for all. Our growing visual arts collections are critical to that mission, and with the launch of Dynamic Duos and Robert Motherwell: At Home and In the Studio, we celebrate a new milestone in making the Library’s visual holdings more accessible and inspiring than ever,” said Brent Reidy, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at The New York Public Library.

The Motherwell exhibition will be on display in the Wachenheim Gallery at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building until August 2, 2025. This exhibition has been made possible by the continuing generosity of Miriam and Ira D. Wallach.

Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, and Jonathan Altman.

About The New York Public Library

For over 125 years, The New York Public Library has been a free provider of education and information for the people of New York and beyond. With over 90 locations—including research and branch libraries—throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, the Library offers free materials, computer access, classes, exhibitions, programming and more to everyone from toddlers to scholars. The New York Public Library receives approximately 16 million visits through its doors annually and millions more around the globe who use its resources at www.nypl.org. To offer this wide array of free programming, The New York Public Library relies on both public and private funding. Learn more about how to support the Library at nypl.org/give.

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