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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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Dada/Surrealist Heritage. 3 May-12 June 1977.
Catalogue edited by Sam Hunter

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris. Paris—New York. 1 June-19 September 1977.
Catalogue with text by Pontus Hultén et al.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 20th-Century American Art from Friends' Collections. 27 July-27 September 1977.
Catalogue with introduction by Tom Armstrong

Cheney Cowles Memorial State Museum, Spokane, Washington. Works on Paper: American Art 1945-1975. 9 September-2 October 1977.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; The Western Gallery, Western Washington State College, Bellingham.
Organized by the Washington Art Consortium.
Catalogue with text by Rosalind Krauss

Indianapolis Museum of Art. Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art. 20 September-27 November 1977.
ALSO SHOWN AT: University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, 20 December 1977-12 February 1978; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 5 March-16 April 1978; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 10 May-19 June 1978.
Catalogue by Jane and John Dillenberger

The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 25 September-31 December 1977.
Catalogue by Helen A. Harrison with introduction by Henry Geldzahler

New York State Museum, Albany. New York, the State of Art: The New York School. 8 October 1977-15 January 1978.
Catalogue with texts by Thomas B. Hess et al.

John Weber Gallery, New York. Drawings for Outdoor Sculpture, 1946-1977. 29 October-23 November 1977.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 3 February-4 March 1978; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 27 June-4 September 1978; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, 15 September-27 October 1978; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 17 November-22 December 1978.
Checklist for the New York showing; catalogue, with essay by David Shapiro, for subsequent showings

Tate Gallery, London. Series. 21 December 1977-31 January 1978.
Exhibition brochure with text by Elizabeth Underhill

Hayward Gallery, London. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. 11 January-27 March 1978.
Catalogue by Dawn Ades, introduction by David Sylvester, and essay by Elizabeth Cowling