Robert Motherwell, VVV
Yellow Abstract Composition
1941-1942
Scroll
Robert Motherwell, VVV
Yellow Abstract Composition
1941-1942
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink and watercolor, Mount: 457 × 355 mm. (18 × 14 in.)
Sheet: 224 × 151 mm. (8 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1948.54.9
Publication References
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from The Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May, and Blanche Adler,"Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2002.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Saidie A. May, Baltimore
Surrealism USA
Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Sawin, Martica; Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School, MIT Press, c. 1995, pp. 190-193.
Illust. Breton, Carrington, Motherwell. Kaplan, Gilbert (ed.); Surrealist Prints, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; c. 1997 Atlantis, p.96.
Lippard, Lucy R.(ed.); Surrealists on Art; Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs NJ, c. 1970.
Illust. Breton, Carrington, Motherwell. Kaplan, Gilbert (ed.); Surrealist Prints, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; c. 1997 Atlantis, p.96.
Lippard, Lucy R.(ed.); Surrealists on Art; Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs NJ, c. 1970.
Inscribed: On secondary support: LRE: [artist signature} 'Motherwell'