Study for Spanish Elegies

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Study for Spanish Elegies

Currently not on view

Study for Spanish Elegies,

1957

Attributed to Robert Motherwell, 1915–1991; born Aberdeen, WA; died Provincetown, MA; active New York, NY, Greenwich, CT, and Provincetown
2005-47

Information

Title
Study for Spanish Elegies
Dates

1957

Maker
Attributed to Robert Motherwell
Medium

Brush and black ink wash, graphite

Dimensions

9.7 x 29.3 cm (3 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of James Lord in memory of Edward J. Lord, Class of 1947, killed in World War II

Object Number
2005-47
Signatures

Initialed and dated in black ink, lower right: RM57

Culture
American
Type
drawings, studies (visual works)
Materials
wash, wove paper, graphite
Subject
abstraction, elegies

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