Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 27, 2013–January 5, 2014).

Curator:
Susan Davidson.

Artist:
Robert Motherwell.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition is devoted exclusively to early collages and related works on paper produced by Robert Motherwell (Aberdeen, Washington 1915 - Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1991), one of the leading figures of American Abstract Expressionism, during the first decade of his career, from 1941 to 1951. This is in fact the first presentation to extensively chronicle his artistic beginnings through the lens of his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique, which Motherwell described in 1944 as “the greatest of our [art] discoveries.”

Partnerships:
Organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Catalogue:
Davidson, Susan. Robert Motherwell: Early Collages. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2013.

Two catalogues, in English and Italian, with a foreword by Richard Armstrong (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum) and Philip Rylands (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection) and acknowledgements by Susan Davidson (Senior Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). The catalogue contains essays by Susan Davidson, Brandon Taylor, Megan M. Fontanella and Jeffrey Warda, as well as color plates of the works on display and a selected bibliography.

Library Location: GUGG PGC 2013 .05 (English), GUGG PGC 2013 .04 (Italian), and UFFICIO 2013 (Italian).