Art: Master of Anxiety and Balance

In Buffalo, the magisterial abstractions of Robert Motherwell

One does not usually think of art shows in terms of seasons, but the Robert Motherwell retrospective that opened last week at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo is certainly autumnal: a life's work fully matured, all its lights, smokes and fermentations distinct, its promises ripely fulfilled. The show, organized by Curator Douglas G. Schultz, is not a huge affair in proportion to the size of Motherwell's output. There are, in all, 93 paintings and collages to represent a man whose oeuvre must be ten or...

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