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1949
Divorces Maria Ferreira y Moyers. Opens Robert Motherwell School
of Fine Art.
1950
Marries Betty Little. Meets David Smith.
Takes teaching post at Hunter College, New York.
1951
Teaches during summer at Black Mountain College; Robert
Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly are students. Writes T
he School
of New York
for the Frank Perls Gallery. Lectures at Museum of
Modern Art, New York and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
1952
Lectures at CAA, New York and at Washington University. Gives
graduate seminar at Oberlin College, Ohio; participates in panel
discussion in Woodstock, New York.
1953
Daughter Jeannie born.
1954
Teaches at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre; meets Emerson
Woelffer. Guest of Federal Republic of Germany in exchange
program.
1955
Included in exhibition “The New Decade: Thirty Fine American
Painters and Sculptors”, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York.
Daughter Lise born. Included in MoMA’s exhibition “Modern Art
in The United States” which tours European cities.
1957
Divorces Betty Little.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, becomes exclusive dealer.
1958
Marries Helen Frankenthaler.
Included in MoMA’s “The New American Painting” which tours
Europe.
Spends summer in Spain and France, mainly Saint Jean de Luz;
begins
Iberia series
of black paintings.
1959
First retrospective at Bennington College, Vermont. Resigns from
Hunter College.
1960
Interviewed by David Sylvester for the BBC:
Painting as
a Self-Discovery
, interview is later published in
Metro
magazine as
Painting as Existence
. Spends summer in Italy; starts
Summertime
in Italy
series.
1961
Travels to London and Paris. Begins to make prints at Tatyana
Grosman’s Universal Limited Art Editions Studio, Long Island.
Retrospective exhibition at
VI Bienal de Arte
, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1962
Lectures and conducts workshops at Emily Lowe Art Gallery,
Florida. Buys house in Princetown, “Sea Barn“.
Appointed visiting critic at University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia.
1963
Becomes art consultant for
Partisan review
. Included in CBS
television broadcast with fourteen other contemporary painters.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York becomes his exclusive
dealer.
1964
Visits Paris Venice and London. Awarded 4th Guggenheim
International Award, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1965
Creates
Lyric Suite,
565 ink drawings.
Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by
Frank O’Hara, with a major catalogue, the exhibition travels
to museums in London, Brussels, Essen and Turin.
David Smith dies in driving accident.
1967
Begins
Open
series of paintings.
1968
Elected advisory editor of the
American Scholar
. Becomes general
editor of
Documents of 20th Century Art
. Joins a number
of protests against the Vietnam War.