Representative work by Barnett Newman
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Barnett Newman

1905–1970 · American

  • City College of New York
  • Art Students League of New York
  • City University of New York
  • DeWitt Clinton High School

Barnett Newman built large fields of color interrupted by vertical bands he called 'zips.' He saw painting as an encounter with scale and presence rather than composition in the conventional sense.

Painting; sculpture; writing

Major Works

  • Onement I
  • Vir Heroicus Sublimis
  • The Wild
  • Cathedra
  • Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue I
  • Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Broken Obelisk
  • Be I
  • Adam

Interviews & Writing

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