Large red geometric shape with crisscrossing lines sits below a white shield and red circle.

Paintings

The Red Skirt

1947

Medium
Oil on composition board
Dimensions
Overall: 48 × 24 in. (121.9 × 61 cm)
Accession number
49.3
Acquired
1949
Credit line
Purchase
Reproduction credit
© Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Robert Motherwell, The Red Skirt, 1947. Oil on composition board, overall: 48 × 24 in. (121.9 × 61 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 49.3. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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