id: 153328 accession number: 1986.4 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.4 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:59.604000 Untitled, 1959. Barnett Newman (American, 1905–1970). Brush and black ink on cream wove paper; sheet: 53.5 x 61.1 cm (21 1/16 x 24 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1986.4 © Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Untitled title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1959 creation date earliest: 1959 creation date latest: 1959 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: © Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: brush and black ink on cream wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Shiff 178 --- CREATORS * Barnett Newman (American, 1905–1970) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 53.5 x 61.1 cm (21 1/16 x 24 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in black ink: Barnett Newman 59; verso, upper center, in graphite: T; lower left, along left margin, in graphite: p-33-362% translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1986 opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Less is More: Minimal Prints opening date: 2013-06-16T00:00:00 Less is More: Minimal Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 16-October 20, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969. Baltimore Museum of Art (April 29 - June 17, 1979); Detroit Institute of Arts (August 7 - September 30, 1979); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (November 2, 1979 - January 6, 1980); Metropolitan Museum of Ar,t New York (February 12 - April 9, 1980); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (September 8 - October 19, 1980); Musée Naitonal d'Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (November 12, 1980 - January 4, 1981); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (February 9 - April 5, 1981); Kunstmuseum Basel (May 11 - July 5, 1981).", 'opening_date': '1979-04-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': '200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America: An Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 8, 1966 - January 29, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1966-12-08T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Barnett Newman [1905–1970], New York, NY, sold to Cleve and Francine du Plessix Gray date: 1959–1961 footnotes: citations: Cleve [1918–2004] and Francine du Plessix [1930–2019] Gray, Warren, CT date: 1961–probably 1985 footnotes: citations: (Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: by 1985–1986 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1986– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Du Plessix, Francine. "Painters and Poets." Art in America (October - November 1965). page number: Reproduced: p. 33 url: 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America: An Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 33, no. 228 url: Richardson, Brenda. Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969. Exh. Cat. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 156, no. 60; Reproduced: p. 157 url: Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38-79. page number: Mentioned: p. 47, 72; Reproduced: p. 47 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 9, pp. 274-275, p. 298; Reproduced: p. 275 url: Shiff, Richard, Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, and Heidi Colsman-Freyberger. Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 425, no. 178 url: --- IMAGES