Brown ink with orange bleed on rice paper

Lyric Suite, Brown #1

Robert Motherwell

1965

  • Titles Lyric Suite, Brown #1 (Proper)
  • Artist Robert Motherwell, American, 1915 - 1991
  • Medium ink on rice paper
  • Dimensions sheet: 11 × 9 in. (27.9 × 22.9 cm) frame: 18 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (46.4 × 41.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by the Merton Brown Estate and the Thelma Brown Trust, AFI.10.2001.10
  • Work Type drawing
  • Classification Drawings

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