NEWMAN, Barnett

Though a painting contemporary of Willem De Kooning and Jackson Pollock , Newman created a different sort of work, proceeding from different assumptions, which was thus not acknowledged until the 1960s. Typical paintings consist of a predominantly monochromatic canvas interrupted by only a few contrasting marks that often take the form of vertical stripes. The Wild (1950), for instance, was a canvas nearly eight feet high but only one and five-eighths inches wide. Because...