Canto IV
1963 (published 1964)
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lithograph in black on wove British Chatham handmade paper
Dimensions
overall: 51.4 x 34.9 cm (20 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Accession Number
1997.129.5
Art Historical Context
Barnett Newman's *Canto IV* (1963, published 4) invites visitors into the profound world of Abstract Expressionism through the intimate medium of printmaking. This lithograph, rendered in stark black ink on high-quality wove British Chatham paper, measures a compact 20¼ × 13¾ inches. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's and Jane Meyerhoff Collection classified within a portfolio, it exemplifiesman's late-career venture into lithography—a precise technique involving greasy crayon drawings transferred to stone or metal plates, yielding rich tonal depths and subtle textures enhanced by the pap...
About the Artist
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was an American artist and a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting whose radical reductions of pictorial elements to pure color and vertical line — which he called "zips" — fundamentally altered the course of postwar American art. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Poland, he studied at the Art Students League and the City College...