Mary Manning

Cosmic Line # 6

2016

Frank Stella (American, b. 1936) Bonne Bay (from Newfoundland Series), 1971 Hand-Signed, dated, and numbered 48/58 in pencil 13-color lithograph and screenprint

Print/Photography, abstract, limited 1/5, signed by the author.

Photography / art print, limited 1/5, signed by the author.

Linocut, signed by the author, from the series " Where we are Heading?"

Robert 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. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. His work appears in museum collections around the world and is instantly recognizable for its boldness and black forms. Yet in addition to his impressive paintings, Motherwell is also revered as a printmaker. He is one of the most innovative and prolific printmakers of the 20th century. He was always searching for new techniques, whether at his own printmaking atelier, or collaborating with others, to expand his ideas and express his aesthetic. This print, along with "El General", was created at Tyler Graphics in 1979. "Rites of Passage II...

Robert 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...