About this artwork
Known as an innovative abstract painter, Barnett Newman made a small but significant body of sculptural work, from which Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley stands out as uncommonly literal and blatantly political. Newman made this sculpture in the fall of 1968 for an exhibition organized by Chicago’s Richard Feigen Gallery as a forum for artists to protest the brutal treatment of anti–Vietnam War demonstrators during the previous summer’s Democratic National Convention, which was held in Chicago. Richard J. Daley, then mayor, was largely seen as responsible for the violent police tactics deployed. What Newman called a “Lace Curtain“ is in reality a hefty screen constructed from barbed wire and splashed with bloodred paint.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 299
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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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