Number 5 (Red Wall), 1952

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 203.84 × 106.68 cm (80 1/4 × 42 in.)

framed: 208.28 × 111.76 × 4.45 cm (82 × 44 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney)

Accession Number

2014.136.151

Artists / Makers

Ad Reinhardt (painter) American, 1913 - 1967

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Inscription

on stretcher crossbar reverse: REINHARDT 1952

Provenance

(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York), by 1962.[1] Old National Bancorporation, Spokane, by 1980.[2] private collection, Germany. (James Goodman Gallery, New York); purchased March 1983 by Gilbert H. and Ann Kinney, Washington; gift 1987 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The Parsons Gallery lent the painting to the 1962 Seattle's World Fair.

[2] The company lent the painting to a 1980 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kinney, Gilbert H., Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1957: 46th Annual Exhibition, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Ashland, Virginia, April-June 1957.

1962: American Art Since 1950, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle's World Fair; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1962, no. 55.

1980: Ad Reinhardt and Color, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11 January - 9 March 1980, no. 6, repro.

1984: Ad Reinhardt, Seventeen Works, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 22 September - 16 December 1984, no. 13, repro.

1991: Ad Reinhardt, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 30 May 1991 - 5 January 1992, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

2008: Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed. Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976. Exh. cat. Jewish Museum, New York, 2008: 154, repro.