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  1. 1915- . US painter associated with the New
  2. York school of action painting. Borrowing
  3. from Picasso, Matisse, and the Surrealists,
  4. Motherwell's style of Abstract Expressionism
  5. retained some suggestion of the figurative.
  6. His works include the `Elegies to the Spanish
  7. Republic' 1949-76, a series of over 100
  8. paintings devoted to the Spanish Revolution.
  9. Born in Aberdeen, Washington, Motherwell
  10. studied art in California and at Harvard and
  11. Columbia universities.
  12.