ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988 joanne tod museum intervention His subjects were often film

His subjects were often film stars (he spent over four years in Hollywood)

"Self-Flagellation with Fruit" explores complex themes through amusing iconography and a clever dose of humor

The artist's signature bold colour enliven the complex geometric shapes that feature prominently in his work of this era

During the late 1970's and early 80's Pachter depicted his friends in casual and lighthearted scenarios

While at first glance her nature is easygoing

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988 joanne tod museum intervention His subjects were often filmRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. While Motherwell's contribution to the art historical canon as a painter is undisputed, his role as a printmaker is arguably just as important. From the early 1960s until his