About this artwork
What Barnett Newman called a lace curtain is in reality a hefty screen constructed from barbed wire and splashed with blood-red paint. Known as an innovative abstract painter, the artist made this sculpture in the fall of 1968 for an exhibition organized by Chicago’s Richard Feigen Gallery. The exhibition served as a forum for artists to protest the brutal treatment of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators during the previous summer’s Democratic National Convention. Richard J. Daley, then mayor of Chicago, was seen as responsible for the use of violent police tactics.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Barnett Newman
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Title
- Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1968
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Medium
- Cor-ten steel, galvanized barbed wire, and enamel paint
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Dimensions
- 177.8 × 121.9 × 25.4 cm (70 × 48 × 10 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Annalee Newman
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Reference Number
- 1989.433
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Copyright
- © 2018 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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