Artist: Barnett Newman (1905 - 1970)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in New York City, Barnett Newman studied in his hometown at the Art Students’ League and the City College simultaneously during the early 1920’s. He began painting in the Abstract Expressionist style in 1930, but later developed a unique, regimented technique and adopted a monochromatic palette. A ten-year period beginning in 1952 marked Newman’s height of minimalism, when he only painted in black and white. However, later in his career he renewed his interest in color and also began creating steel sculptures.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Dan Flavin - untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue) 1970 red, yellow, and blu National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - The Name II 1950 magna and oil on can National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - The Wild 1950 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Barnett Newman - Abraham 1949 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Barnett Newman - Two Edges 1948 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Barnett Newman - Covenant 1949 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Barnett Newman - Dionysius 1949 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - The Voice 1950 egg tempera and enam The Museum of Modern Art American
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Barnett Newman - Achilles 1952 oil and acrylic resi National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - Be I (second version) 1970 acrylic on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Barnett Newman - Twelfth Station 1965 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - Pagan Void 1946 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - Yellow Painting 1949 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Barnett Newman - Vir Heroicus Sublimis 1950-51 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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H. Walter Barnett Jan Kubelik, violinist photograph 20th century
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John Cochran Reverend Newman Hall 19th century
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Artist: John Newman Title: Untitled Date: 1986 Medium: colored chalk, oil crayon and graphite Dimensions:
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Artist: John Newman Title: Fold-Out Date: 1985 Medium: color lithograph, drypoint, and aquatint Dimensions: H.40-1/8
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Alphonse Legros Portrait of Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ensemble, 1967 Designed by Rudi Gernreich (American, born Austria, 1922-1985)Americanwool, plastic, nylon; a) L. at
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Sarah Barnett, British Marking sampler Britain, 1738 Linen plain weave embroidered with silk 33 x
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Thomas Haxby, English, 1729-1796 Spinet England, (York), 1764 Mahogany 84.3 x 68.6 x 184.8 cm
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Henry Roderick Newman, American, 1843-1917 Gulf of Spezia 1884 Oil on canvas 145.73 x 202.25
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Henry Roderick Newman, American, 1843-1917 Mt. Everett from Monument Mountain in April 1867 Watercolor over
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Arnold Newman - Igor Stravinsky c. 1946 silver gelatin print Dennos Museum Center American
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Henry Roderick Newman, American, 1843-1917 Wild Flowers 1887 Watercolor over graphite Sheet: 39.0 x 26.5
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Henry Roderick Newman, American, 1843-1917 Wall Enclosing the Mausoleum of Ieyasu at Nikko, Japan 1897
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Herbert Barnett - Still Life with Mexican Figure 1938 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Barnett Freedman - The Barn at Fingest, Buckinghamshire (1933) 1933 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Unidentified artist, American, 19th century Musicians in the Snow 1876(?) Oil on canvas 76.52 x
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Sargent Claude Johnson Chair wood, velvet and brocade circa 1885
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Joseph Goldyne Tulip Procession Monotype 1981
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William Unger Self-Portrait 19th century
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William Unger A la cÙte de Dieppe etching 19th century
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William Unger Pharisien etching 19th century
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William Unger Crucifixion etching 19th century
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William Unger Idylle etching 19th century
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William Unger Richard Wagner 19th century
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William Unger Logement et nourriture etching 19th century
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William Unger Boutique de tailleur a Venice etching 19th century
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William Unger Hugo Graf Abensperg-Traun 19th century
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William Unger Portrait of Frank Duveneck (aft. Wm. M. Chase) etching 19th century
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William Unger Foreign Etchingsäfrom Paintings (London: Sampson Lowä, [ca. 1890]) book with etchings 1890
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White Flag, 1955 Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal on canvas; H.
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Giovanni Baglione, Italian, 1571-1644 Seated Male Nude about 1600 Drawing: pen and brown ink Sheet:
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Martin Johnson Heade, American, 1819-1904 Hummingbirds with Nest 1863 Oil on canvas 30.48 x 25.72
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Martin Johnson Heade, American, 1819-1904 Newburyport Marshes about 1866-76 Oil on canvas 33.65 x 66.04
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Jacob Eichholtz, American, 1776-1842 Man in a Yellow Waistcoat 1824 Oil on canvas 76.83 x
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John Frederick Kensett, American, 1816-1872 Whirlpool, Niagara about 1851 Oil on canvas 31.75 x 55.88
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© Alan Bowness, the Hepworth Estate ; Barbara Hepworth, British, 1903-1975 Rock Form (Porthcurno) 1964
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Unidentified artist, American, 19th century New England Hillside 1830s Oil on canvas 60.96 x 79.06
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Unidentified artist, American, 19th century Running Before the Storm about 1870 Oil on canvas 60.96
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Thomas Birch, American (born in England), 1779-1851 Skating about 1830-40 Oil on canvas 50.8 x
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Thomas Shotter Boys Landscape with a Lockgate watercolor over graphite underdrawing and scraping out on wove paper circa 1833
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Unidentified artist, American, mid-19th century Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1849 Oil on canvas 35.88 x 65.4
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David Gilmour Blythe, American, 1815-1865 In the Pittsburgh Post Office about 1859-62 Oil on canvas
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William Sidney Mount, American, 1807-1868 Rustic Dance After a Sleigh Ride 1830 Oil on canvas
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David Gilmour Blythe, American, 1815-1865 Lincoln Crushing the Dragon of Rebellion 1862 Oil on canvas
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Martin Johnson Heade, American, 1819-1904 Sunset: Lake Champlain 1874 Oil on canvas 63.5 x 126.68
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James Henry Wright, American, 1813-1883 U.S. Ship "Constellation" 1850s? Oil on canvas 51.12 x 75.88
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Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, American, 1818-1871 Opening of the Wilderness about 1857-59 Oil on canvas 44.45
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A. A. Lawrence, American, 19th century Boat Race, Boston Harbor 1852 Oil on canvas 55.88
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John Whetten Ehninger, American, 1827-1889 Turkey Shoot 1879 Oil on canvas 63.5 x 110.17 cm
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Seth Eastman, American, 1808-1875 Sioux Indians Breaking Up Camp 1848 Oil on canvas 64.13 x
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John Frederick Kensett, American, 1816-1872 Niagara Falls and the Rapids about 1851 Oil on canvas
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Cylinder jar Stone Vessel Egyptian Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, 2350-2170 B.C. Egypt Anorthosite gneiss H
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George Morland, British, 1763-1804 The Wreckers 1791 Oil on canvas 103.8 x 139.4 cm (40
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Zoe, Maid of Athens, 1866? Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815-1879)Albumen silver print from glass negative;
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Wayne Thiebaud 3 Cows 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud White Ridge oil on canvas 1969
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Wayne Thiebaud Neighborhood Ridge 1984
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Wayne Thiebaud Valley Farm 1993
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Wayne Thiebaud Big Suckers (color) 1971
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Wayne Thiebaud Country City 1988
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Wayne Thiebaud Three Streets Down monotype 1977
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Wayne Thiebaud The Bride Lithograph 1951
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Wayne Thiebaud Working Proof 2 for Three Cows 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud Working Proof 10 for Three Cows 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud Working Proof 5 for Three Cows 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud Working Proof 8 for Three Cows 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud Working Proof 11 for Three Cows 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud Farm Hill watercolor 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud Dark Country City 1988
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Wayne Thiebaud Big Suckers (Black and White) 1971
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Wayne Thiebaud Chocolates Color etching and drypoint 1993
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Wayne Thiebaud Bow Ties Color lithograph 1990
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Wayne Thiebaud Untitled (cow in landscape) etching 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Death and the Maiden lithograph 1951
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Wayne Thiebaud Bowls graphite and watercolor circa 1960 - 1980
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 1 for Untitled 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Lunch Etching with watercolor additions by the artist 1967
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Wayne Thiebaud Eight Dogs Etching 1990
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 13 for Steep Street 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Nickel Machine Etching 1964
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Wayne Thiebaud Lipsticks (Black) dry point 1988
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 5 for Country City 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 10 for Country City 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 9 for Country City 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 8 for Country City 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud Working proof 7 for Country City 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (27)
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Philadelphia Museum of Art: Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
It will trace the dramatic shifts in Newman's practice from his Surrealist- inspired drawings of the 1940s, through his development of the trademark vertical stripe ...
Strand on Volta: Meat and You: Works by Graham Caldwell, Frank Day, Stephen E. Lewis and William Newman
Graham Caldwell’s work captures perfectly the mystery of being in a natural history museum for the first time. Using glass, he transforms organic forms – objects that are lightweight, gentle, and organic – into objects that are heavyweight, massiv...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
SCA Project Gallery, Pomona Art Colony: Inverse and Brush with Weight and a Dance: Painting, Sculpture and Sound
Artists participating in Inverse express their views on the complex phenomenon of being reciprocal, opposite or reverse in relationships existing in the worlds of natural and unnatural, macro or micro or ethnic or social. SCA Project Gal...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Welcome Home Milton!
Milton Avery brought together simple, spare forms and harmonious colors to build patterns of flat, interlocking shapes reminiscent of French artist Henri Matisse. He frequently ...
Center for Photography at Woodstock: Woodstock Photography Workshop Internships
Since 1979 the Center has presented the renown WOODSTOCK PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP ANO LECTURE SERIES, an educational offering, presented each year, June - October, where national/international artists serve as teachers and lead intensive, hands-on cla...
Pelham Art Center: Pictures are the Problem: Curated by Walead Beshty
"Using models drawn from sources as seemingly disparate as contemporary film, photo-journalism, 19th century salon painting, and advertising, the exhibition emphasizes various means by which the ubiquity of the pictorial composition can be disrupt...
Forum for Contemporary Art: Ando Constructed: Photographs of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts by Robert Pettus, Curated by Mel Watkin
For three years prior to its completion, Pettus spent weekends roaming the construction site analyzing every detail. Alone, without the construction crew's presence, he shot hundreds of images that reflect the minimalist elegance of ...
Heather Marx Gallery: Timothy Nolan: Amalgumate
In his paintings and drawings, Nolan copies outdated textile patterns onto pristine fabricated surfaces of mylar and cast acrylic panels. It is this union between the readymade and the artist’s hand that occupies much of Nolan’s work, and intrigui...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Fragmente Bregenz 2003: Gerhard Merz
Gerhard Merz, born in 1947, studied painting at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Today he lives in Pescia near Lucca, Italy, and in Berlin; he teaches at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Since the mid-seventies he has been developing a concept...
Monash University Gallery: Avant-gardism fo Children
avant-gardism for children is not a celebration of childrens or naïve art. It is concerned with teasing out further possibilities of spontaneous and improvisational artmaking whilst extending notions of moder...
Chinati Foundation: Open House Celebration to Inaugurate Large-Scale Work in Fluorescent Light by Dan Flavin
Artist Donald Judd (1928-1994) founded the Chinati Foundation, an independent museum for contemporary art in far West Texas, in 1986. Chinati's mission is to present ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: ALMOST WARM AND FUZZY: Childhood and Contemporary Art
The exhibition features several kinetic and interactive pieces. Among the many captivating installation works are: Sandy Skoglund’s Shimmering Madness, a d...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Laguna Art Museum: California Holiday: The E. Gene Crain Collection
Support for the exhibition has been provided by the Festival of Arts Foundation, the City of Laguna Beach, the Fieldstone Foundation, Jim and Martha Newkirk, John and Barbara Bing, the late Rex Brandt, Gerald and Bente Buck, Mary and Matt Lawson, ...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal
This retrospective exhibition features over 35 major paintings. It covers five decades of his art and looks at how he absorbed and transcended Surrealism to create his own unique mode of abstract painting. Jimmy Ernst’s paintings were influenced...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002)
Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater. Following its MOCA presentation, the exhibition will be on view at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academ...
City Gallery Wellington: Stephen Bambury
I use the allure of beauty of surface, colour and space to provide a runway into the work., says Bambury. This offers people a 'painting experience', something you don't have with anything else in the world. Stephen Bambury is one of New ...
Center for Photography at Woodstock: Call for entries: Put yourself in the picture

B/ Step into someone elses shoes: What do you see from hereNULL Can you picture a room with a view - eye-spy and visualize a world unknown or far too familiar - like Goldilocks and the three bears - what feels just rightNULL Dress up in a mask,...
Florence Lynch Gallery: Minimalpop: A Joint Effort with CCNOA, Brussels and PS, Amsterdam
The exhibition minimalpop is a joint effort of CCNOA center for contemporary non-objective art, Brussels, and the Amsterdam-based artist-run gallery PS. Both places share a history of exchange of artists as well as curated exhibitions. The conc...
Gallery Neubacher: INMYSOLITUDE
The works are presented in collaboration of the following individuals or institutions:  Shauna McCabe and Confederation Centre Art Gallery (PEI), The Power Plant (Toronto), and MRI Foundation (Milan). ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Alison Norlen, th...
Mobile Museum of Art: Women of Our Time: 75 Women Challenged and Changed the US
“This collection of photographs features women whose lives redefined America,” said Marc Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “Women of Our Time” includes photographs of activists and artists, designers and dancers, politici...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA is an exclusive SFMOMA presentation; the exhibition is co-organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and John S. Weber, the Leanne ...
San Diego Museum of Art: Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
With more than 265 items, the exhibition comprises every category of object imaginable including paintings, sculpture, architectural photography, fashion, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, glass, toys, and graphic design. Among the highlight...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

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