ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print Acquired from the Nina Freudenheim

Acquired from the Nina Freudenheim Gallery (Buffalo)

Annotated “Children” and “426” in pencil verso

smoking and posing

This print is held in the permanent collection of the MoMA

Framed with museum glass

ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print Acquired from the Nina FreudenheimRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American artists that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the post war art world. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching, and lecturing extensively on behalf of abstract expressionism, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. In addition