Canto IX
1963-1964
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lithograph in blue and black on gray-white laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 41.6 x 40 cm (16 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Accession Number
1997.129.10
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...