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Barnett Newman

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Fan account of Barnett Newman, an American abstract expressionism and color field painter. 1905-1970 Automated with @botfrens.bsky.social and @andreitr.bsky.social

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 11h

Untitled www.artic.edu/artworks/76008

Through prior gift of The Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 14h

Canto XIII from 18 Cantos www.moma.org/collection/works/14597

Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 18h

The Station of the Cross - First Station www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/t…

The Station of the Cross - First Station

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Station of the Cross - Seventh Station www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/s…

The Station of the Cross - Seventh Station

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Vir Heroicus Sublimis www.moma.org/collection/works/79250

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Covenant www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/c…

Covenant

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Canto X www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/c…

Canto X

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Concord www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/c…

Concord

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Note XI (State I) from Notes www.moma.org/collection/works/60528

Gift of Celeste Bartos

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Canto IV www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/newman…

Presented by Mrs Annalee Newman, the artist's widow 1972

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two Edges www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/t…

Two Edges

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Station of the Cross - Sixth Station www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/s…

The Station of the Cross - Sixth Station

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Wild www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/t…

The Wild

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Abstract Composition in Green and Red www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/a…

Abstract Composition in Green and Red

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Canto XII www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/newman…

Presented by Mrs Annalee Newman, the artist's widow 1972

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/w…

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Untitled I www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/u…

Untitled I

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ink drawing on commercial lined yellow paper, sketches of Here II www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Sketches and notes, some relating to "Here II."

Harvard Art Museums/Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Gift of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation

© The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Voice www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/t…

The Voice

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eve www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/e…

Eve

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CR 295, studies for Synagogue, pencil on paper www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Harvard Art Museums/Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Gift of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation

© The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/74690

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Newman in honor of René d'Harnoncourt

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Be II www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/b…

Be II

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Canto XVII from 18 Cantos www.moma.org/collection/works/14601

Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Treble www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/t…

Treble

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Untitled Etching #1 (First Version) www.moma.org/collection/works/69771

Gift of William Goldston

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Galaxy www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/g…

Galaxy

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Canto VIII www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/c…

Canto VIII

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Title Page from 18 Cantos www.moma.org/collection/works/14591

Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canto XIV from 18 Cantos www.moma.org/collection/works/14598

Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley www.artic.edu/artworks/90579

Known as an innovative abstract painter, Barnett Newman made a small but significant body of sculptural work, from which Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley stands out as uncommonly literal and blatantly political. Newman made this sculpture in the fall of 1968 for an exhibition organized by Chicago’s Richard Feigen Gallery as a forum for artists to protest the brutal treatment of anti–Vietnam War demon- strators during the previous summer’s Democratic National Convention, which was held in Chicago. Richard J. Daley, then mayor, was largely seen as responsible for the violent police tactics deployed. What Newman called a “Lace Curtain“ is in reality a hefty screen constructed from barbed wire and splashed with bloodred paint.

Gift of Annalee Newman

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Note V from Notes www.moma.org/collection/works/60535

Gift of Celeste Bartos

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Studies for a Synogogue www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Studies for a Synogogue

Harvard Art Museums/Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Gift of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation

© The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Canto VI www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/newman…

Presented by Mrs Annalee Newman, the artist's widow 1972

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canto XV www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/newman…

Presented by Mrs Annalee Newman, the artist's widow 1972

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vir heroicus sublimis www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/v…

Vir heroicus sublimis

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Adam www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/a…

Adam

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eve www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/newman…

date inscribed
Purchased 1980

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

14. Fourth Station www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/f…

14. Fourth Station

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Onement III www.moma.org/collection/works/79921

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slifka

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Canto XII www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/c…

Canto XII

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Figure studies www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

Ink and graphite sketches on recto and verso of commercially lined hole-punched paper

Harvard Art Museums/Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Gift of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation

© The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CR 323, sketch in felt pen, blue ballpoint pen, pen and ink on onionskin www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…

CR 323, sketch in flet pen, blue ball point pen, pen and ink on onionskin

Harvard Art Museums/Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Gift of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation

© The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dionysius www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/d…

Dionysius

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Untitled 3 www.artic.edu/artworks/73420

Untitled 3 is part of a series of six insistently vertical paintings exhibited by the artist at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951, in which Newman translated his signature compositions, “zip” paintings, into three-dimensional objects. Painted on canvas over an unusually thick frame, strips of cadmium red and silver gray thrust outward toward the viewer, dismantling the boundary between painting and sculpture. Concerned about the odd appearance of the deep sides of these works, the painter Jackson Pollock, a friend of Newman, constructed simple wood frames for the first three, this one included.

Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ulysses www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/u…

Ulysses

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Canto XVII www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/c…

Canto XVII

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Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Canto XIV www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/newman…

Presented by Mrs Annalee Newman, the artist's widow 1972

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Beginning www.artic.edu/artworks/73417

A key figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement, Barnett Newman is widely considered one of the most innovative and influential painters of the twentieth century. A brilliant colorist and a master of expansive spatial effects, he pioneered a new pictorial language that was at once emphatically abstract and powerfully emotive. For Newman, the spiritual content of abstract art was of paramount importance. Although his works seem largely focused on the formal qualities of painting, he insisted that they possessed symbolic meaning. This meaning was never explicit, but he often alluded to it in the titles of his works, as with The Beginning. In the mid-1940s Newman became preoccupied with the Old Testament story of Creation and began selecting titles in reference to the book of Genesis. In this painting, the bands of paint that emerge from the base of the canvas interrupt a richly variegated field of color, a sort of primordial fog. The artist created these three stripes with the aid of masking tape, which he applied to the canvas as a guideline before adding the surrounding color. This work is an important precursor to Newman’s mature paintings, which are characterized by a single vertical band, or “zip,” that divides the composition.

Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison

Barnett Newman @barnettnewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue II www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/w…

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue II