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A solid field of shamrock green is divided by a pumpkin-orange line a quarter of the way down from the top and a crisp, canary-yellow line about a third of the way up the bottom in this abstract, vertical painting. The artist signed and dated in the lower right, “Barnett Newman 1949.”

Barnett Newman

Dionysius, 1949

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 170.2 x 124.5 cm (67 x 49 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Annalee Newman, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1988.57.2

Artists / Makers

Barnett Newman (artist) American, 1905 - 1970

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Inscription

lower right: Barnett Newman 1949

Provenance

Annalee Newman; gift 1988 to NGA.

Associated Names

Newman, Barnett, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1971: Barnett Newman, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London; Grand Palais, Paris, 1971-1972, no. 14 (New York catalogue), no. 13 (European catalogues), repro. in London and Paris catalogues.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, unnumbered catalogue, color repro.

2002: Barnett Newman, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London, 2002-2003, pl. 36.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 241, repro.

1997: Berrie, Barbara H. and Suzanne Quillen Lomax. "Azo Pigments: Their History, Synthesis, Properties, and Use in Artists' Materials." Studies in the History of Art 57 (1997): 26-27, repro. no. 14.