
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled 3
Barnett Newman · 1950
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist; by descent to Annalee Newman, New York, sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Barnett Newman, Apr. 23-May 12, 1951, no cat., as no. 14-1951.
- New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Newman-de Kooning, Oct. 23-Nov. 17, 1962, no cat., as Untitled 56" x 3" 1950.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Barnett Newman, Oct. 21, 1971-Jan. 10, 1972, cat. 25; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Mar. 30-May, 22, 1972, cat. 23; London, Tate Gallery, June 28-Augu. 6, 1972, cat. 23; Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Oct. 10-Dec. 11, 1972, cat. 23.
- Evanston, IL, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Jan. 25-July 13, 2025, no cat. no., fig. 1.8.
Literature
Published references
- Thomas Hess, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971), 71, cat. 25 (ill.), 72, 73.
- Jeanne Siegel, "Around Barnett Newman," Art News, 70, no.6 (Oct. 1971):60.
- Thomas Hess and Edy de Wilde, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk, 1972), 71, cat. 25 (ill.), 72, 73.
- Thomas Hess and Blaise Gautier, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (Paris: Grand Palais, 1972), 71, cat. 25 (ill.), 72, 73.
- Thomas Hess and Norman Reid, Barnett Newman, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1972), 45 (ill.), 86.
- Robert Melville, "Birth of the Stripe," The New Statesman, July 14, 1972, 66.
- Alfred Pacquement, "Barnet Newman: Qui a peur du rouge, du, du jaune et du bleu?," Le Petit Journal des Grandes Expressions, Oct. 11-Dec. 11, 1972, 3.
- Rudolph Louw, "Newman and the Issue of Subject Matter," Studio International, 187, no. 962 (Jan. 1974): 31.
- Benjamin Garrison Paskus, "The Theory, Art, and Critical Response of Barnett Newman," Ph.D. disertation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1974), 138-39, 140-41.
- Harold Rosenberg, Barnett Newman (New York: Harry N. Abrahms, Inc., 1978), 104, 105, no. 68 (color ill.).
- Germain Viatte, "Barnett Newman: L'illumination de Shining Fourth," Cahiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne, no. 1 (July-Sept. 1979), 114.
- Jean-François Lyotard, “L’instant, Newman,” in L’art et le temps : Regards sur la quartième dimension, ed. Michel Baudson (Brussels : Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1984), 101.
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