Visual Documentation for Barnett Newman’s Curatorial Projects, 1944-1946 PART I: Image Records for Pre-Columbian Stone Sculpture (1944) & Northwest Coast Indian Painting (1946)

Authors

Michael Schreyach

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2022

Abstract

The article analyzes works of Barnett Newman, who is best known to scholars of abstract expressionism. Newman had staged, in collaboration with Betty Parsons, three exhibitions of decisive significance after 1948 for assessing the basis of what he came to call ideographic painting. In 1944, Newman and Parsons organized the exhibition Pre-Columbian Stone Sculpture, whose brochure itemizes fifty objects.

DOI

10.1086/720929

Repository Citation

Schreyach, Michael. “Visual Documentation for Barnett Newman’s Curatorial Projects, 1944-1946 PART I: Image Records for Pre-Columbian Stone Sculpture (1944) & Northwest Coast Indian Painting (1946), Source Notes in the History of Art 41:3 (Spring 2022): 208–19.

Publication Information

Source Notes in the History of Art