The Beginning

1. Estate of the artist; by descent to Annalee Newman, New York, 1973; given to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1977; by exchange to Annalee Newman, New York, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, French and Company, Inc., Barnett Newman: A Selection, 1946-1952, Mar. 11-Apr. 5, 1959, cat. 8.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Barnett Newman, Oct. 21, 1971-Jan. 10, 1972, cat. 2; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Mar. 30-May, 22, 1972; London, Tate Gallery, June 28-Augu. 6, 1972; Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Oct. 10-Dec.11, 1972.
• Edinburgh, City Art Centre and Fruitmarket Gallery, American Abstract Expressionists, Aug. 13-Sept. 12, 1981, cat. 27.
• New York, Pace Gallery, Barnett Newman: Paintings, Apr. 8-May 7, 1988, cat. 2.
• Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20-May 29, 1994, cat. 62; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 29, 1994; Yokahama Museum of Art, Aug. 6-Sept. 25, 1994.
• Munich, Haus der Kunst, Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965, Oct. 14, 2016–Mar. 26, 2017, pl. 33.

• Harold Rosenberg, "Barnett Newman: A Man of Controversy and Spiritual Grandeur," Vogue, 15, Feb. 15, 1963, 166.
• Harold Rosenberg, "Barnett Newman: The Living Rectangle," in The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience (New York: Horizon Press, 1964), 174.
• Thomas F. Matthews, "The Problem of Religious Content in Contemporary Art," in Revolution, Place, and Symbol: Journal of the First Congress of Religion, Architecture and the Visual Arts, papers of a congress in New York and Montreal, Aug. 26-Sept. 4, 1967, published 1969, 125.
• Lawrence Alloway, "Notes on Barnett Newman," Art International, 13, no. 6 (Summer 1969): 35.
• Thomas Hess, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971), 49, cat. 2 (ill.).
• Harold Rosenberg, Barnett Newman: Broken Obelisk and Other Sculptures (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971), 15.
• Thomas Hess and Edy de Wilde, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk, 1972),48, 49, cat. 2 (ill.), 52.
• Thomas Hess and Blaise Gautier, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (Paris: Grand Palais, 1972), 48, 49, cat. 2 (ill.), 52.
• Thomas Hess and Norman Reid, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1972), 86, cat. 2.
• Werner Spies, "Auf dem Weg zur Offenbarung: Abstraktion und religiöse Botschaft: Die Bilder Barnett Newman in Amsterdam," Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, May 17, 1972, 11.
• Benjamin Garrison Paskus, "The Theory, Art, and Critical Response of Barnett Newman," Ph.D. disertation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1974), 80, 81.
• Robert Rosenblum, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975), 208-9.

Untitled 3

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Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley

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Gea

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Canto II, from 18 Cantos

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Untitled

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Canto I, from 18 Cantos

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Box for Notes

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Barnett Newman (B), New York

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