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Artist Barnett Newman (American, 1905-1970)

Date1946

Dimensions23 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (60.3 x 44.5 cm)

MediumBrush and ink on paper

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1990.7

Not on View

Label TextBarnett Newman was one of the great New York School abstract artists who rose to prominence after World War II. He is best known for his large canvasses of intense color intersected by vertical stripes or “zips” painted from the late 1940s through the 1960s. He is now regarded as one of the pivotal masters of 20th-century American art. This is one of 19 drawings Newman did in 1946. In his entire career he made only 83 drawings. These were not studies for his paintings, but rather, artistic explorations in their own right. Newman made these drawings as part of his personal quest to invent a new way of seeing. He firmly believed that drawings were fundamental to his artistic achievement. In 1962, he said, “If I made a contribution, it is primarily in my drawings.”Exhibition HistoryWalker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. 1994.

St. Louis Art Museum, MO. 1994.

Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1988.

Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.