Robert Motherwell, Jewish Candelabrum, Ink on paper, 1952
Artist/Maker:
Robert Motherwell
Bio:
American, 1915-1991
Title:
Jewish Candelabrum
Date:
1952
Medium:
Ink on paper
Dimensions:
22 3/8 × 28 1/2 in. (56.8 × 72.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase: Philip and Lynn Straus Fund in memory of Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson and Gift of Dedalus Foundation
Accession Number:
1994-690
Copyright:
(c) Dedalus Foundation, Inc.

Not On View

These works highlight the generous donation of numerous studies for Robert Motherwell's mural, Tablets, Ark and Candelabrum, created for the Congregation B'nai Israel synagogue in Millburn, New Jersey. For an artist whose career is based purely upon abstraction, the mural and these studies are the only examples of representational works in his oeuvre.

Two other Jewish Abstract Expressionist artists, Adolph Gottlieb and Herbert Ferber were also commissioned to decorate the interior of this synagogue.

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