Untitled

Prints and Drawings

1960

Barnett Newman
American, 1905-1970

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Barnett Newman
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1960
Medium: Brush and black ink on paper
Dimensions: 35.5 × 25.2 cm (14 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior gift of Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis
Reference Number: 1990.65
Copyright: © 2018 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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.).

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.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Annalee Newman (1909-2000); sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

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