biography of Barnett NEWMAN (1905-1970)

Personal data


Birth : 01/29/1905 - New York NY New York, United States
Death : 07/04/1970 - New York NY New York, United States
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : United States

Representatives

Steven Vail Galleries – Suite 1803 666 Walnut Avenue – Des Moines IA, United States


Education

Cornell University – 410 Thurston Avenue – Ithaca NY, United States
1923 – 1927 : The Art Students League of New York (BA) – 215 West 57th Street – New York NY, United States

Professional data


Work and Life

1970:He dies in New York NY, USA of a heart attack.
1961:He makes his first lithographs, at the Pratt Institute Graphic Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

1945:He paints his first known work on canvas.
1929:He enters his father’s business in order to build up savings to support himself as an artist. This plan is upended by the 1929 stock-market crash, as Newman must stay on to try to keep the company solvent.
1900:His parents, Abraham and Anna Newman, are Jewish immigrants and arrived in New York City from Poland.

Work


Categorie and medium


Painting : Acrylic/canvas
Print-Multiple : Lithograph
Sculpture-Volume :
Drawing-Watercolor :

Movements and styles

Abstraction
Minimal Art
Abstract Expressionism
American Abstraction 1910-1960
American Modernists
New York School

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2002

Tate Modern – London, United Kingdom
09/20/2002 – 01/05/2003

Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia PA, United States
03/24/2002 – 07/07/2002

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2003

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Galerie Karsten Greve – 5 rue Debelleyme – Paris, France

FIAC, n°30
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/09/2003 – 10/13/2003
Represented by : Galerie Karsten Greve – 5 rue Debelleyme – Paris, France

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Brooke Alexander – 2nd Floor 59 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

2002

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Brooke Alexander – 2nd Floor 59 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Brooke Alexander – 2nd Floor 59 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Karsten Greve – Drususgasse 1-5 – Cologne, Germany


Group exhibitions

2002

The Physical World: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Gagosian Gallery – New York NY, United States
05/09/2002 – 08/30/2002

Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Sciences, Religion and Art
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe, Germany
05/04/2002 – 08/04/2002

Made in USA : L’Art américain de 1908 à 1947
Musée Fabre – Montpellier, France
04/12/2002 – 06/23/2002

Claude Monet … bis zum digitalen Impressionismus
Fondation Beyeler – Riehen BL, Switzerland
03/28/2002 – 08/18/2002

Made in USA : L’Art américain de 1908 à 1947
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Rennes, France
01/17/2002 – 03/31/2002

2001

Colección Onnasch
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Barcelona, Spain
12/2001 – 02/2002

Made in USA : L’Art américain de 1908 à 1947
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Bordeaux, France
10/10/2001 – 12/31/2001

1965

Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, n° 8
São Paulo, Brazil
1965

1959

Documenta II – Kunst nach 1945
Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Schloss Bellevue – Kassel, Germany
07/11/1959 – 10/11/1959

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Books

2001

La Peinture Efficace : une histoire de l’abstraction aux Etats-Unis (1910-1960)
Publisher: Editions Gallimard – 5 rue Sébastien-Bottin – Paris, France
Author: De Chassey Eric – 10/12 Square des Peupliers – Paris, France
2001
ISBN : 2070757048


Periodicals

2002

FABBRI Anne – Barnett Newman
in: The Art Newspaper n° 123 p. 7
London, United Kingdom
03/2002

FRIMBOIS Jean-Pierre – Du Void au Zip
in: Art Actuel n° 22 p. 86
Paris, France
09/2002-10/2002

Legals