Pagan Void
1946
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 83.8 x 96.5 cm (33 x 38 in.) framed: 87.3 x 99.7 x 4.4 cm (34 3/8 x 39 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Annalee Newman, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1988.57.1
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...