Untitled
Barnett Newman
1944
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oil crayon on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 50.5 x 37.8 cm (19 7/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund
Accession Number
1998.59.1
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...