Robert Motherwell was born on January 4, 1915 in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. He was married to Helen Frankenthaler. He died on July 16, 1991 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1989 by the
National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
He did lithographs at the Irwin Hollander's East Village workshop. Irwin Hollander the lithographer was born, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York 30 November 1927 and died 16 November 2018, Brooklyn, New York.