Robert Motherwell
The Joy of Living
1942
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Robert Motherwell
The Joy of Living
1942
Physical Qualities
Collage of construction paper, mulberry paper, fabric, and printed map with tempera and oil paints, ink, crayon, and graphite on paper, Sheet: 1115 x 912 mm. (43 7/8 x 35 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.344
Publication References
'Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century,' New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications p. 140, ill.
"Robert Motherwell: Early Collages", fig. 48.
Robertson, Bryan. 'From a Notebook on Robert Motherwell', Studio International, volume 171, issue no. 875, March 1966, pp. 89-93.
Motherwell, Robert. The Collages of Robert Motherwell: a retrospective exhibition. Intro. note by Phillippe de Montebello; Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972; Fig. 1 page 11.
"BMA Today," Summer 2006, p. 21, ill.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting" Baltimore: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 204.
Flam, Jack D. "Robert Motherwell paintings and collages: a catalogue raisonné, 1941-1991," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. vol. III, p. 3-4, ill. p. 4.
Landau, Ellen G, "Mexico and American Modernism", New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2013; Fig. 97 page 142
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 232.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on loan, 1943; from Saidie A. May, by purchase, 1943; from Art of This Century, New York
Surrealism USA
Imagery of Chess Revisited Project
Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction
Collage/Collages 1912-1962
Robert Motherwell: The Early Collages
10 American Artists: After Paul Klee
Tempting to Touch: Surface and Substance in 20th-Century American Art
O'Hara, Frank. Robert Motherwell, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dist. by Doubleday & Company, NY, 1965 (cat. No. 3, p. 200).
Terenzio, Stephanie. Robert Motherwell & Black. Storrs : William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, c1980.
Arnason, H.H. Robert Motherwell, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.
Terenzio, Stephanie. Robert Motherwell & Black. Storrs : William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, c1980.
Arnason, H.H. Robert Motherwell, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.
Inscribed: upper left in graphite: "MOTHERWELL 43"