Robert Motherwell

Three Figures Shot

1944

Three abstract standing figures with black outlines and red ink splatters on a beige background.
Three abstract standing figures with black outlines and red ink splatters on a beige background.

Robert Motherwell, Three Figures Shot, 1944. Pen and ink and ink wash on paper, sheet: 11 7/16 × 14 3/8 in. (29.1 × 36.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome Purchase Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts 81.31. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1944

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink and ink wash on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 14 3/8 in. (29.1 × 36.5 cm)

Accession number
81.31

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome Purchase Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts

Rights and reproductions
© Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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