Selected Bibliography
Motherwell, Robert. “The Modern Painter’s World.” DYN 1, no. 6 (November 1944): 9-14.
Greenberg, Clement. “Art.” The Nation 159, no. 20 (November 11, 1944): 598-599.
Kees, Weldon. “Robert Motherwell.” Magazine of Art 42, no. 3 (March 1948): 86-88.
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Edited by Robert Motherwell. New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., 1951. Second edition, Boston: G.K. & Co., 1981, with a foreword by Jack Flam; paperback, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989.
Motherwell, Robert. “The Rise and Continuity of Abstract Art.” Arts & Architecture 68, no. 9 (September 1951): 21, 41.
Goossen, E.C. “Robert Motherwell and the Seriousness of Subject.” Art International 3, no. 1-2 (January-February 1959): 33-35, 38, 51.
Sandler, Irving. “Robert Motherwell.” Art International 5, no. 5-6 (June-August 1961): 43-44.
Ashton, Dore. “Robert Motherwell: Passion and Transfiguration.” Studio International 167, no. 851 (March 1964): 100-105.
Robert Motherwell: With Selections from the Artist’s Writings. Exhibition catalogue with contributions by Frank O’Hara and Robert Motherwell. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965.
Kozloff, Max. “An Interview with Robert Motherwell.” Artforum 4, no. 1 (September 1965): 33-37.
Lippard, Lucy. “New York Letter: Miró and Motherwell.” Art International 9, no. 9-10 (December 1965): 33-35.
Tillim, Sidney. “Motherwell: The Echo of Protest.” Artforum 4, no. 4 (December 1965): 34-36.
Arnason, H.H. “On Motherwell and His Early Work.” Art International 10, no. 1 (January 1966): 17-35.
Robertson, Bryan. “From a Notebook on Robert Motherwell.” Studio International 171, no. 875 (March 1966): 89-93.
Arnason, H.H. “Robert Motherwell: The Years 1948 to 1965.” Art International 10, no. 4 (April 20, 1966): 19-45.
Kramer, Hilton. “Robert Motherwell: The Art of Collage.” New York Times (October 13, 1968): D37.
Krauss, Rosalind. “Robert Motherwell’s New Paintings.” Artforum 7, no. 9 (May 1969): 26-28.
Arnason, H.H. “Motherwell: The Window and the Wall.” Art News 68, no. 4 (Summer 1969): 48-52, 61-68.
Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. New York and Washington: Prager Publishers, 1970.
Ashton, Dore. The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
Raynor, Vivien. “A Talk with Robert Motherwell.” Art News 73, no. 4 (April 1974): 50-52.
Carmean, Jr., E.A. “Robert Motherwell’s Spanish Elegies.” Arts Magazine v. 50, no. 10 (June 1976): 94-7.
Arnason, H.H. “Robert Motherwell: 1966-1976.” Art International 20, no. 9-10 (October-November 1976): 9-25, 55-57.
Cohen, Arthur A. “The Motherwell Atelier.” Vogue 167, no. 3 (March 1977): 230-233, 256.
Arnason, H.H. Robert Motherwell. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977; revised edition 1982.
Fineberg, Jonathan. “Death and Maternal Love: Psychological Speculations on Robert Motherwell’s Art.” Artforum 17, no. 1 (September 1978): 52-57.
Carmean, Jr., E.A., et al. Reconciliation Elegy. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
Terenzio, Stephanie and Robert Motherwell. Robert Motherwell & Black. Connecticut: The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1980.
Baro, Gene. “Robert Motherwell.” Art International 24, no. 9-10 (August-September 1981): 117-118.
Patton, Phil. “Robert Motherwell: The Mellowing of an Angry Young Man.” Art News 81, no. 3 (March 1982): 70-76.
Firestone, Evan R. “James Joyce and the First Generation New York School.” Arts Magazine 56, no. 10 (June 1982): 116-121.
Mattison, Robert S. “The Emperor of China: Symbols of Power and Vulnerability in the art of Robert Motherwell during the 1940s.” Art International 25, no. 9-10 (November-December 1982): 8-14.
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Drudi, Gabriella. Robert Motherwell Collages. Milan: Multhipla Edizione, 1983.
Robert Motherwell. Exhibition catalogue with contributions by Dore Ashton, Jack Flam, and Robert T. Buck. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1983.
Van Hook, L. Bailey. “Robert Motherwell’s Mallarme’s Swan.” Arts Magazine 57, no. 5 (January 1983): 102-106.
Glueck, Grace. “The Mastery of Robert Motherwell.” New York Times Magazine (December 2, 1984): 68-72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 81, 86.
Collins, Bradford R. “The Fundamental Tragedy of the Elegies to the Spanish Republic, of Robert Motherwell’s Dilemma.” Arts Magazine 59, no. 1 (September 1984): 94-97.
Danto, Arthur C. “Robert Motherwell.” The Nation 240, no. 2 (January 1985): 58-60.
Mattison, Robert S. “A Voyage: Robert Motherwell’s Earliest Works.” Arts Magazine 59, no. 6 (February 1985): 90-93.
Pleynet, Marcelin. Le Etats-Unis De La Peinture. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1986.
Danto, Arthur C. The State of the Art. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1987.
Mattison, Robert Saltonstall. Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987.
Drudi, Gabriella. Robert Motherwell Notes Romaines. Paris: Editions de la Difference, 1988.
Mattison, Robert S. “Robert Motherwell’s First Collages: ‘All My Life I Have Been Obsessed By Death.’” Studies in Iconography 12 (1988): 171-186.
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Edited by Robert Motherwell. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989.
Pleynet, Marcelin. Robert Motherwell. Paris: Daniel Papierski, 1989.
Mackie, Alwynne. Art/Talk: Theory and Practice in Abstract Expressionism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Terenzio, Stephanie and Dorothy C. Belknap. The Prints of Robert Motherwell: A Catalogue Raisonné 1943–1990. New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1990.
Flam, Jack. Motherwell. London: Phaidon, 1991; also published by Rizzoli, New York,; Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona; Albin Michel, Paris.
Polcari, Stephen. Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Motherwell, Robert. The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell. Edited by Stephanie Terenzio. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992; revised edition, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999, with a foreword by Jack Flam.
Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Motherwell. Exhibition catalogue, with texts by Dore Ashton, Joan Banach, Norbert Lynton, and Francisco Calvo Serraller. Barcelona: Fundación Antoni Tàpies, 1996.
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
Caws, Mary Ann. Robert Motherwell: With Pen and Brush. London: Reaktion Books, 2003.
Engberg, Siri and Joan Banach. Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940–1991. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2003.
Motherwell, Robert. The Writings of Robert Motherwell. Edited by Dore Ashton with Joan Banach. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.