Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)

“Making an Elegy is like building a temple, an altar, a ritual place. …Unlike the rest of my work, the Elegies reflect the internationalist in me, interested in the historical forces of the twentieth century, with strong feelings about the conflicting forces in it” (R. Motherwell, quoted in J. Flam, Motherwell, New York, 1991, p. 24).