Gesture Paper Painting #2, 1975

Not on View

Medium

acrylic, gouache, and crayon on handmade paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.63 × 61.6 cm (18 3/4 × 24 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)

Accession Number

2015.19.2747

Artists / Makers

Robert Motherwell (artist) American, 1915 - 1991

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Motherwell 75

Provenance

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York); The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Honorable William H.G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, a

Exhibition History

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 109-111, no. 69, repro

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 213, no. 1430.