Exhibitions - The Barnett Newman Foundation

Barnett Newman’s exhibition history to date includes 48 solo shows and 514 group shows.

Only nine of his solo exhibitions took place during the artist’s lifetime. The first two, at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1950 and 1951, respectively, were failures not only in the eyes of critics but of his fellow artists as well. It was not until the end of the decade that Newman had the next opportunity, a retrospective at Bennington College in 1958, followed in 1959 by another survey, organized by Clement Greenberg for the gallery of French & Company, New York. His first, and only, solo exhibition at a museum during his lifetime took place in 1966 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani. The last one, at the gallery of Knoedler & Co in 1969, finally became the success with critics and fellow artists alike that had eluded Newman for most of his career.

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Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. For Benefit of the Foundation for the Contemporary Performance Arts. 14 December 1965-5 January 1966

Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Den inre och den yttre rymden/The Inner and the Outer Space. 26 December 1965-13 February 1966.
Catalogue with texts in Swedish by Joost Baljeu, K. G. Hultén, Györgi Ligeti, and Ulf Linde

National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. VIII São Paulo Biennial: United States of America. 27 January-6 March 1966.
Catalogue with introduction by Walter Hopps

Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art, New York. '25'. March 1966

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Barnett Newman: The Stations of the Cross — Lema Sabachthani. 20 April-19 June 1966.
Catalogue with statement by the artist and essay by Lawrence Alloway

André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York. Seven Decades, 1895-1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art. 27 April-21 May 1966.
A ten-gallery exhibition benefiting The Public Education Association.
Catalogue with text by Peter Selz

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Art of the United States: 1670-1966. 28 September-27 November 1966.
Catalogue with text by Lloyd Goodrich

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Two Decades of American Painting. 15 October-27 November 1966.
ALSO SHOWN AT: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 10 December-22 January 1967.
Organized by The International Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Catalogue with essays in Japanese by Irving Sandler, Lucy R. Lippard, and G. R. Swenson

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Vormen van de kleur/New Shapes of Color. 29 November 1966-15 January 1967.
Catalogue with texts in Dutch and English by E. de Wilde et al.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Benefit Show for Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc. 6-10 December 1966.
Organized and assembled by Alex Hay and Lucinda Childs, the show included at least one work by Barnett Newman, not identifiable due to lack of documentation.
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