Robert Motherwell scrapbooks, 1944-1978 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The Robert Motherwell Scrapbooks, complied by John Cuddihy, document the development of Robert Motherwell's career. They include exhibition catalogues, hundreds of newspaper and magazine clippings, exhibition invitations and checklists and other ephemera as well as photographs of Motherwell's work, records of Cuddihy's own collection, and various personal papers relevant to Cuddihy's interest in Motherwell. The latter includes records of sale, Cuddihy's diagrams of works by Motherwell and correspondence between Cuddihy and various dealers and museums, such as the Jewish Museum, the Sam Kootz Gallery, the Sidney Janis Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, the Bennington College Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the American Federation of Artists (AFA), the Pasadena Art Museum, the Smith College Art Museum, and Dore Ashton, on behalf of Cooper Union. The scrapbooks also include several letters and cards from Motherwell, and one from Helen Frankenthaler, Motherwell's former wife. The final scrapbook contains several autobiographical items, including the covers of Cuddihy's two publications