Untitled Etching #2
1969
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View on museum website →Medium
etching and aquatint
Dimensions
image: 59.37 x 37.47 cm (23 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 80.65 x 57.79 cm (31 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Accession Number
1976.56.121
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...