
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled
Barnett Newman · 1960
Provenance
Ownership history
- By descent to the artist's wife, Annalee Newman (1909-2000); sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Barnett Newman,” Oct. 21, 1971–Jan. 10, 1972, pp. 9, and 96, cat. 111 (ill.); also Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Mar. 30–May 22, 1972, cat. 81 (ill.); London, Tate Gallery, June 28–Aug. 6, 1972, cat. 88; and Paris, Grand Palais, Oct. 10–Dec. 11, 1972, pp. 127 and 131, cat. 80 (ill.).
- Indianapolis Museum of Art, “Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art,” Sept. 20–Nov. 27, 1977, cat. 60; also Berkeley University Art Museum, Dec. 28, 1977–Feb. 12, 1978; San Antonio, Tex., Marion Koogler McKay Art Institute, Mar. 5–Apr. 16, 1978; and Columbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Art, May 10¬–June 18, 1978.
- Baltimore Museum of Art, “Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944–1969,” Apr. 22–June 17, 1979, pp. 158 and 162-63, cat. 62 (ill.); also Detroit Institute of Arts, Aug. 7–Sept. 30, 1979; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 2, 1979–Jan. 6, 1980; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 12–Apr. 9, 1980; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sept.8–Oct. 19, 1980, cat. 52; and Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Nov. 14, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981, cat. 58.
- Colgone, Museum Ludwig, “Barnett Newman: Das zeichnerische Werk,” Feb. 20–Mar. 29, 1981, cat. 57 (color ill.); also Basel, Kunstmuseum, May 9–July 5, 1981.
- Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Rheinhallen, “Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960,” Apr. 8–June 28, 1989, cat. 515a.
- Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, “Barnett Newman: Bilder, Skulpturen, Graphik,” May 17–Aug. 10, 1997, p. 184, cat. 30 (ill.).
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Barnet Newman,” 2002, pp. 218 and 221, cat. 65 (ill.); shown only at London, Tate Modern, Sept. 19, 2002–Jan. 5, 2003.
Literature
Published references
- Brenda Richardson, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969 (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979), pp. 162-63, no. 62 (color ill.).
- Richard Shiff, Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, and Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonne (The Barnett Newman Foundation and Yale University Press, 2004), p. 427, no. 180 (ill.).
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