Untitled (Elegy), from the "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" series
Robert Motherwell, American, 1915 - 1991
1988
Acrylic on canvas
Overall: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
Frame: 17 × 21 in. (43.2 × 53.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Partial purchase through gifts from Melville Straus, Class of 1960, and the Lathrop Fellows, and partial gift of the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.
© Robert Motherwell / Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA, New York
P.996.21.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
ANTH 50, COCO 2, HIV/AIDS Through a Biosocial Lens: 30 Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2013
ARTH 17, Abstract Expressionism, Jim Jordan, Spring 2012
PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
PHIL 23, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Winter 2015
SART 25.01, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 53, Expression of the Unconscious, The Language of Emotion, Anna Nearburg, Class of 2010,The Kathryn Conroy Intern. Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-Feburary 7, 2010.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, exhibited with Abstraction at Mid-Century: Major Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-June 3, 2001.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 1, 2006.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5-March 11, 2001.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-May 30, 2003.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 28-September 17, 2000.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1996-January 5, 1997.
Gesture, Emotion, Shape: Sources of Abstraction by Philip Dytko, Class of 2017, Pauline Lewis, Class of 2016, and Amalia Siegel, Class of 2016, Art History 71: The American Century- Modern Art in the United States, Winter 2015, Mary Coffey, Class Project, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 14-July 12, 2015.
Publication History
Anna Nearburg, A Space for Dialogue 53, Expression of the Unconscious, The Language of Emotion, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2010, ill. cover.
Provenance
The artist; Dedalus Foundation, Inc., Bedford Hills, New York; partial gift/purchase to present collection, 1996.
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