Home of Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, Vogue

The living room of art collectors and artists, Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, in their New York City brownstone on the East Nineties. On the left wall: a Willem de Kooning painting rests on the floor; a David Smith sculpture; three Motherwells (a collage, a 1963 oil, a 1949 gouache); a Peruvian ceramic; another David Smith sculpture in the corner. On the far wall, left of the doorway: a pencil and gouache Motherwell; a 1962 Kenneth Noland; a bronze sculpture by Adja Yunkers. On the far wall, right of the doorway: a Baga mask from Africa; a New Guinea paddle; a seventeenth-century Madras temple carving. On the right wall: a large 1952 oil by Helen called "Mountains and Sea;" a 1949 Mark Rothko over the fireplace; a 1961 Motherwell oil, part of his masterpiece series, this one is called "Elegy to the Spanish Republic, Number 70."; a Rodin called "Iris." The mantel is constructed of a long spice chest, its top covered with milk glass. On the mantel, sits a ninth-century South India schist figure and a Matisse bronze. On the small table by the fireplace is a Degas bronze. On the big table: a small Matisse bronze called "Seated Nude;" a twelfth-century Egyptian headrest; a Miro bronze. At the back of the room is a green baize poker table.