Between Life and Death: Robert Motherwell's Elegies in Bay Area Collections
September 5, 2015 by Matthew Klassen 
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Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
September 5, 2015 – March 6, 2016
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The de Young Museum in San Francisco is hosting a celebration of the centennial of Robert Motherwell's birth. The small one-room show opens today and features works from the artist's Elegies to the Spanish Republic series, assembled from local public and private collections. These pieces make use of large, heavily-applied fields of black paint, utilizing gestural techniques and a formalist reduction that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries. This is both a concise exhibition of one of the 20th century’s most preeminent abstract expressionists, and a wonderful chance to celebrate a significant milestone with other admirers of Motherwell’s work.
