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Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman

1905

WA-00000525

New York, NY, USA

PaintingColor FieldSurrealismAbstract Expressionism

Representation

None documented

24

Institutional Exhibitions

183

Works in Collection

257

Assets Indexed

3

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

100%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ374504

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Abstractions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Contemporary Works from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Tatyana Grosman Gallery Inaugural Installation

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Philip Johnson: Selected Gifts

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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For 25 Years: Prints from ULAE

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1982

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Prints: Acquisitions 1977�1981

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981–1982

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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1980

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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationGallery Generic· 72%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (2)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/barnett-newman
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4285
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Barnett Newman was an American painter and theorist who developed a distinctive approach to abstraction using large fields of color interrupted by vertical lines he called 'zips'. Working primarily from the 1950s onward, his monumental canvases engaged with concepts of the sublime and American transcendentalism.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

Graph relationships

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Movement

Color Field

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (183)

Untitled Etching #1

Untitled Etching #1

1969 · Etching and aquatint on paper

image: 372 x 594 mm frame: 730 x 959 x 40 mm

Untitled Etching 2

Untitled Etching 2

1969 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 59.4 × 37.3 cm (23 7/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 80.5 × 58 cm (31 3/4 × 22 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching on white paper

Image/plate: 37 × 59.3 cm (14 5/8 × 23 3/8 in.); Sheet: 57 × 79 cm (22 1/2 × 31 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 2

Untitled Etching 2

1969 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 59.4 × 37.3 cm (23 7/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 78.9 × 57 cm (31 1/8 × 22 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 2

Untitled Etching 2

1969 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 59.4 × 37.3 cm (23 7/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 79.2 × 57.5 cm (31 3/16 × 22 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 2

Untitled Etching 2

1969 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 59.4 × 37.3 cm (23 7/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 80.8 × 58.2 cm (31 13/16 × 22 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching on white wove paper

Image/plate: 37 × 59.3 cm (14 5/8 × 23 3/8 in.); Sheet: 57.9 × 80.5 cm (22 13/16 × 31 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching with light bluish plate tone on white wove paper

Image/plate: 37.5 × 60.4 cm (14 13/16 × 23 13/16 in.); Sheet: 49 × 75.2 cm (19 5/16 × 29 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 2

Untitled Etching 2

1969 · Etching on heavy white wove paper

Image/plate: 59.4 × 37.3 cm (23 7/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 79.2 × 57.5 cm (31 3/16 × 22 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching with plate tone on white wove paper

Image/plate: 37.9 × 60.6 cm (14 15/16 × 23 7/8 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 75.4 cm (19 1/8 × 29 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching with heavy bluish plate tone on white wove paper

Image/plate: 37.5 × 60.4 cm (14 13/16 × 23 13/16 in.); Sheet: 49.1 × 75.2 cm (19 3/8 × 29 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching in warm black with plate tone on white wove paper

Image/plate: 37.4 × 60.2 cm (14 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.); Sheet: 48.7 × 75.6 cm (19 3/16 × 29 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching in warm black with plate tone on white wove paper

Image/plate: 37.3 × 60.2 cm (14 11/16 × 23 3/4 in.); Sheet: 48.8 × 75.1 cm (19 1/4 × 29 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching with plate tone on white paper

Image/plate: 37.3 × 60.2 cm (14 11/16 × 23 3/4 in.); Sheet: 48.7 × 75 cm (19 3/16 × 29 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching 1

Untitled Etching 1

1969 · Etching on heavy ivory wove paper

Image/plate: 37.9 × 60.6 cm (14 15/16 × 23 7/8 in.); Sheet: 57.5 × 80.5 cm (22 11/16 × 31 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Etching #1 (First Version)

Untitled Etching #1 (First Version)

1969 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 14 15/16 x 23 7/8" (37.9 x 60.6 cm); sheet: 18 7/8 x 29 3/4" (48 x 75.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled Etching #2

Untitled Etching #2

1969 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 23 3/8 x 14 11/16" (59.4 x 37.3 cm); sheet: 31 3/16 x 22 5/8" (79.2 x 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley

Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley

1968 · Cor-ten steel, galvanized barbed wire, and enamel paint

177.8 × 121.9 × 25.4 cm (70 × 48 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Note VIII (State II), from Notes

Note VIII (State II), from Notes

1968 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 7.4 × 15 cm (2 15/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 36.2 × 50.7 cm (14 5/16 × 20 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Note XII (State I), from Notes

Note XII (State I), from Notes

1968 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 14.8 × 9.8 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.2 × 35.5 cm (19 13/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Note XII (State II), from Notes

Note XII (State II), from Notes

1968 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 14.9 × 9.8 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 35.7 cm (19 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Note XI (State II), from Notes

Note XI (State II), from Notes

1968 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 14.9 × 7.5 cm (5 7/8 × 3 in.); Sheet: 51.4 × 35.2 cm (20 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Note X (State II), from Notes

Note X (State II), from Notes

1968 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 15 × 7.4 cm (5 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50.6 × 35.5 cm (19 15/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Note X (State I), from Notes

Note X (State I), from Notes

1968 · Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 14.9 × 7.4 cm (5 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 35.4 cm (19 11/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

183 published of 243 catalogued · 234 with image

Art Institute Chicago
93 published93 img
MoMA
60 publishedof 120 catalogued118 img
Tate
23 published23 img
The Met
6 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 8)

8 entries · 1 sources

Untitled Etching #1
1969 · Tate · 1 prov
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Canto XII
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
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Canto II
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
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Canto VIII
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
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Canto XV
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
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Moment
1946 · Tate · 1 prov
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Canto IX
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
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Canto XVIII
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
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Record

Images

14 assets

Barnett Newman (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Artsy artwork: Untitled (1968)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Untitled (1968)

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Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Newman Barnett

Wikimedia Commons

Newman Barnett

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'Untitled Etching 1 (First Version)' by Barnett Newman, 1968

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Barnett Newman Broken Obelisk Rothko Chapel (HDR)

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Relationships

13

Peers & Context4

Mark RothkocontemporaryClyfford StillcontemporaryAdolph GottliebcontemporaryHelen Frankenthalercontemporary

Movements3

Color Field Surrealism Abstract Expressionism

Collections6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Tate Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

City College of New York

Visual Arts

Art Students League of New York

Visual Arts

City University of New York

Visual Arts

DeWitt Clinton High School

Visual Arts

Network

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