QUICK MAGAZINE usually didn’t concern itself with the goings-on in the NY art world, but when the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell (1915 – 1991) strayed from the standard-issue art supply tools and used a reflective fabric called Scotchlite in the creation of a 12 foot, three-paneled mural – the editors thought it was news.
Overtime, the work, titled MURAL FRAGMENT (1950), generated some controversy (it should be noted that the dust-up had nothing to do with the Scotchlite). Today it is part of the permanent collection of The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
