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Barnett Newman Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Barnett Newman available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
5 works
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Barnett Newman at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Onement IV
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese) 
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "N"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Broken Obelisk
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Horizon Light
State Museums of Berlin
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV, 1969/70
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Cathedra
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Right Here, 1954
The Menil Collection, Texas
Ulysses, 1952
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Shimmer Bright, 1968
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Repository of Abstract Art
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Barnett Newman 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
Ulysses (detail), 1952
ARTnews
The Wild, 1950
Tate Magazine
Robert Ryman on Barnett Newman
Tate Magazine
American Sublime, article by Carter Ratcliff
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Read between the lines", 2002 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard
"Art for nincompoops", 2002 article by Brian Sewell
The New Yorker
"Barnett Newman retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art", 2002 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Barnett Newman
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Reconsidering Barnett Newman
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Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
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