AMERICAN ARTIST, TLS, one page to poet and editor of Voyages, William Claire: Sept. 28, 1976, with the mailing envelope.; Typed on Motherwell's Greenwich, CT letterhead, in a landscape format. Single horizontal fold, else vg. Signed in blue ink by Motherwell

Motherwell sends his apologies that he cannot attend the lecture series that Claire is hosting saying that he wil be in Chicago at the time. from Wikipedia: Robert Motherwell (1915 – 1991) American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston. In the early 1940s Robert Motherwell played a significant role in laying the foundations for the new movement of Abstract Expressionism (or the New York School). In 1970, Motherwell (truncated) moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. During the 1970s, he had important retrospective exhibitions in a number of European cities, including Düsseldorf, Stockholm, Vienna, Paris, Edinburgh, and London. In 1977, Motherwell was given a major mural commission for the new wing of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

In 1983, a major retrospective exhibition of Motherwell’s work was mounted at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; this exhibition was subsequently shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and New York City. Another retrospective was shown in Mexico City, Monterey, and Fort Worth, Texas, in 1991. (Inventory #: 50733)