Personnage by Robert Motherwell https://www.nga.gov/artworks/72176-personnage
Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary
Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Associated Names Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts
Associated Names Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts
Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 20-21, repro.
Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 27, repro.
When 80-year-old Emily Sims Motley posed for her grandson, her eyes focused on the artist working in front of her. That direct gaze now invites us to look carefully at this portrait.
"Collecting for the Nation."
Twombly was a reclusive, quasi-mythic figure of contemporary art. Born in Lexington, Virginia, the artist spent his early career in New York before moving to Italy in 1957, where he lived until his death in 2011.
Weiss, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalog Art for the Nation
1976 Artwork history & notes Artwork History Bibliography 1991 Art for the Nation
Or, advise the National Gallery in its role to the nation on the Trustees’ Council