Storming the Citadel

This programme was made shortly before Motherwell's death in 1991. In the early 1940s, together with Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko and Kline, he created a distinctly American school of painting – Abstract Expressionism – and shifted the centre of modern art from Paris to New York. He talks eloquently about this movement and the hardships that preceded success, and is seen painting in his studio, creating a collage in Provincetown and preparing for a major New York retrospective.