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Barnett Newman    (American, 1905-1970)

 Barnett Newman - Installation Shot
Barnett Newman
Installation Shot
 
 Barnett Newman - Untitled (Prints) h: 30.1 x w: 22.1 in / h: 76.5 x w: 56.1 cm
Barnett Newman
Untitled 1961
 
 Barnett Newman - Untitled, 1944 <br>Art © The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 15 x w: 20 in / h: 38.1 x w: 50.8 cm
Barnett Newman
Untitled, 1944
Art © The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York
 

Biography
1905 Born in New York, NY
1922 - 1926 Studied with John Sloan and William von Schlegel The Art Students League, New York, NY
1923 - 1927 BA, Philosophy City College, New York, NY
1941 Studied botanics and ornithology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1944 Organized pre-Columbian stone sculpture exhibition Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1947 Organized the The Ideographic Picture Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1962 - 1964 Taught at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
1970 Awarded Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal
1970 Died

Exhibitions
2009 1945-1949 Repartir à zéro, comme si la peinture n’avait jamais existé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon
2008 Color as Field. American Painting 1950-1975, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
Eye on the Collection: Views and Viewpoints, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2007 La Abstraction del Paisaje, Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Declaring Space, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Mark Rothko & Barnett Newman - The Sublime is Now!, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
2006 Elemental Form, L&M Arts, New York City, NY
Black Paintings, HDK, Haus der Kunst, München, Munich
2005 Leporello, Een reis door de collectie, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Wilder a tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1965-1979, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s-70s, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Shanghai Art Museum: Encounters with Modernism, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2003 Barnett Newman: Cantos, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (solo)
2002 Barnett Newman, Tate Modern, London (England) (solo)
Barnett Newman, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1999 - 2000 Barnett Newman: Notes, 1968: The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
1998 Barnett Newman, Galerie Karsten Greve - Cologne, Cologne (solo)
1996 Barnett Newman: Prints 1961-1969 - Camden Arts Centre, London (solo)
1993 Azur: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
1991 Barnett Newman: 18 cantos - Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur
1983 Barnett Newman Foundation, New York (solo)
1982 Dia Art Foundation, New York (solo)
1981 Kunstmuseum, Basel (solo)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (solo)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (solo)
1979 Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (solo)
1978 The Subject of the Artist, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1976 America As Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
20th Century American Drawing: 3 Avant-Garde Generations, Guggenheim Museum, New York
1972 Tate Gallery, London (travelled to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris) (solo)
1971 Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
1970 Barnett Newman: January 29, 1905-July 4, 1970, Pasadena Art Museum, California (solo)
Das Graphische Werk, Kammerkunsthalle, Berne (solo)
1969 22 Lithographien, Kunstmuseum, Basel (solo)
Prints by 4 New York Painters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1968 Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York (travelled to Los Angeles and Chicago)
1966 Barnett Newman, The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachtani, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY (solo)
1965 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1962 Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning, Allan Stone Gallery, New York (solo)
1958 - 1959 The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art (International Council) New York, NY
French and Company, New York (solo)
1958 Retrospective, Bennington College Bennington, VT (solo)
1951 Betty Parsons Gallery New York, NY (solo)
1950 Betty Parsons Gallery New York, NY (solo)
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