ROBERT MOTHERWELL "IRISH SUITE #6", ETCHING, 1990Robert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world. Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. While Motherwell's

and sometimes surfaces of the images

he included images including logos

magical moments to painful ones

fluttering petals

"Dryland Farming #25

capturing the details of clandestine meeting spots for gay cruising across the world

layered blue

utilizing a bold color scheme and flattening depth

Stella began printmaking in 1967 - and it immediately became an essential part of his practice

This suite was completed late in the artist's life

and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

their green and brown foliage mingling or almost submerged against a blue background