Once the husband of Helen Frankenthaler, this is, for 10 points, what American Abstract Expressionist best known for his series Elegy for the Spanish Republic?
One of this artist's earlier works features several yellow vertical bars and a magenta horizontal bar, which was later shaded black, then back to magenta over the course of thirty years. That work, Little Spanish Prison, was created during a trip to Mexico, which also resulted in the appropriately-titled Mexican Sketchbook. His collage Surprise and Inspiration was at the center of his first one-man exhibition, and in 1991 he died in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he had flung paint on canvases to create many of his Beside the Sea paintings. His work with color-field theory led to his Open series, but this artist is better remembered for his painting At Five in the Afternoon, which is reminiscent of another series comprised of paintings of black circles between black vertical bars on a white canvas. Once the husband of Helen Frankenthaler, this is, for 10 points, what American Abstract Expressionist best known for his series Elegy for the Spanish Republic?
One of this artist's earlier works features several yellow vertical bars and a magenta horizontal bar, which was later shaded black, then back to magenta over the course of thirty years.
Robert {Motherwell}