ROBERT MOTHERWELL "SUMMERTIME IN ITALY BLUE" 1966 Winter photography McEwen's inclusion of a window

McEwen's inclusion of a window in the center of the work highlights the illusion of depth in this piece

armed with weapons and intense stares

and Surrealism

punctuated by opaque black dots and a sheer white overlay

a slithering snake

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "SUMMERTIME IN ITALY BLUE" 1966 Winter photography McEwen's inclusion of a windowRobert 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 post war art world. 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. In the 1960s, Motherwell