id: 139825
accession number: 1963.583
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. LV, 1955–1960. Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991). Oil on canvas; framed: 181 x 196 x 4 cm (71 1/4 x 77 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 178.1 x 193.7 cm (70 1/8 x 76 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1963.583 © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
title: Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. LV
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creation date: 1955–1960
creation date earliest: 1955
creation date latest: 1960
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creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright: © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 181 x 196 x 4 cm (71 1/4 x 77 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 178.1 x 193.7 cm (70 1/8 x 76 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1964)
opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00
Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
title: The White House Festival of the Arts
opening date: 1965-06-14T04:00:00
The White House Festival of the Arts. The White House, Washington, DC (June 14-15, 1965); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (organizer) (June 18-July 11, 1965).
title: Robert Motherwell
opening date: 1965-09-29T04:00:00
Robert Motherwell. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 29-November 1, 1965); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1070 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands (January 8-20, 1966); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (January 31-February 28, 1966); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (March 1-April 1, 1966); Museum Folkwang, 45128 Essen, Germany (July 2-August 14, 1966).
title: Works from the Contemporary Collection
opening date: 1969-07-01T04:00:00
Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).
title: American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist
opening date: 1978-06-01T04:00:00
American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (June 1, 1978-January 14, 1979).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'São Paulo, Brazil, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, VI Biennial of The Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo (September - December 1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-09-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Pasadena, CA, Pasadena Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition (18 February - 11 March 1962), no. 42.', 'opening_date': '1962-02-18T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of Robert Motherwell (10-28 January 1963), no. 15.', 'opening_date': '1963-01-10T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review (1 - 31 January 1965)', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, The White House Festival of the Arts, June 14-July 11, 1965, cat no. 27, p. 12.', 'opening_date': '1965-06-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, September 29-November 30, 1965, cat. no. 46, repr. p. 47.', 'opening_date': '1965-09-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'also to: Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, January 8-January 20, 1966, cat. no. 41; London, Whitechapel Gallery; Basel, Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang.', 'opening_date': '1966-01-08T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Torino, Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna, Robert Motherwell (September - October 1966), no. 41.", 'opening_date': '1966-09-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969', 'opening_date': '1969-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Retrospectiva del gran pinter northamericano, April-May 1975, cat. no. 8, listed p. 31.', 'opening_date': '1975-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, DC, The National Gallery or Art, American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist, June 1, 1978-February 4, 1979, cat. no. 4, p. 109, repr. fig. 10.', 'opening_date': '1978-06-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Buffalo, NY, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Robert Motherwell Retrospective Exhibition, September 15-November 27, 1983, cat. no. 35, p. 126, repr. p. 81.', 'opening_date': '1983-09-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'also to: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 4-March 4, 1984; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 7-May 28, 1984; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, June 22-August 5, 1984; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, September 8-October 28, 1984; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, December 1, 1984-January 31, 1985.', 'opening_date': '1984-01-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, Robert Motherwell: The Spanish Elegies, October 11, 1992-January 3, 1993.', 'opening_date': '1992-10-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 94, p. 121, color repr. p. 35.', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York).
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” February 19, 1964, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1209
Henning, Edward B. “Annual Report for 1963.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 6 (June 1964): 127–161.
page number: Mentioned: p. 132, 146; reproduced: p. 147
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152003
Henning, Edward B. “The Language of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 9 (November 1964): 211–231.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.217-219, fig. 3
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152016
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 202
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n226
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 202
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n226
Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.
page number: Mentioned: p. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5
“Franz Kline, Accent Grave.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 2 (February 1969): 62–68.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 64-65, fig. 4
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152255
Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970.
page number: Reproduced: p. 372, fig. 343
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 250
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n270
Neet, Jane. “Mondrian’s ‘Chrysanthemum.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 7 (September 1987): 282–303.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 283, fig. 2
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159997
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 35, no. 94
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Flam, Jack D., Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford. Motherwell: 100 Years. Milano, Italy: Skira; New York: Dedalus Foundation, 2015.
page number: Reproduced: p. 122, fig. 123; and p. 234. Mentioned: P. 119 and PP. 232, 235.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: July Through September 2016. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page number: p. 30
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Lucie-Smith, Edward. Movements in Art Since 1945. London: Thames and Hudson, 2020.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 28-29, no. 13
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Chassey, Éric de. Le surréalisme dans l'art américain: Dalí, Ernst, Tanguy, Pollock, Rothko, Johns, Bourgeois. Paris : Réunion des musées nationaux, 2021.
page number: Reproduced: p. 99, fig. 15
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