GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT currently presents Robert Motherwell and Multiplicity, an exhibition that explores the deep significance of reproduction across Motherwell’s artistic practice. The exhibition showcases approximately 30 drawings, collages, prints, and print folios, featuring works from the Bruce Museum’s permanent collection and loans from the Dedalus Foundation and private collections in Europe and the United States. The exhibition is guest curated by Dr. Jennifer Cohen, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Dalí Museum.

Although Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991) is best known for the defining role he played in the Abstract Expressionist movement of postwar American painting, he also made significant contributions to the world of printmaking. Throughout his career Motherwell explored the medium as a means of artistic expression, often collaborating with master printers to realize his artistic vision, and this practice complemented his habit of working in series.

Beginning in the early 1960s and continuing through his move to Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1970, Motherwell embraced printmaking and the repetition and variation it enabled as tools to probe the limits and possibilities of his practice, transforming his work in painting, drawing, and collage.

As guest curator Dr. Jennifer Cohen notes, “The Bruce Museum’s holdings of prints by Robert Motherwell have long demonstrated the range of Motherwell’s technical brilliance in the medium, and it has been thrilling to have the opportunity to build upon these iconic pieces and place them in the context of works he held in his personal collection.”

Located in Bruce Park overlooking Greenwich Harbor, the Bruce Museum is a community- based, world-class institution that offers a changing array of exceptional exhibitions and educational programs to promote the understanding and appreciation of art, science and the intersections between the two disciplines. Now considered ahead of its time for taking this multidisciplinary approach over a century ago, the Bruce Museum is at the heart of contemporary efforts to bring together art, science, technology and creativity to generate moments of discovery and dialogue.
The first exhibition at the Bruce Museum took place in 1912 and featured works by local artists known as the Greenwich Society of Artists, several of whom were members of the Cos Cob Art Colony. Their works formed the nucleus of the Museum's art holdings and continue to be a strength of the collection, which has expanded to focus on global art from 1850 to the present. Other strengths include Ancient Chinese sculpture, Native American Art, the Hudson River School, modernist works on paper, and photography.

Bruce Museum / Vicki Netter Fitzgerald gallery
Robert Motherwell and Multiplicity
September 23rd, 2023 - December 3rd, 2023