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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Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The Decisive Years, 1943-1953. 14 January-1 March 1965.
Catalogue with introduction by Samuel Adams Green

New School Art Center, New York. Portraits from the American Art World. 2-27 February 1965.
Catalogue with text by Paul Mocsanyi

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. 18 June-1 August 1965.
Catalogue edited by Maurice Tuchman, with artists' statements

Musée Rodin, Paris. Modern Sculpture USA/États-Unis sculptures du XXe siècle. 22 June-10 October 1965.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin, 20 November 1965-9 January 1966; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 25 February-17 April 1966.
Organized by The International Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Catalogue with introduction in French by René d’Harnoncourt

Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles. Barnett Newman: 18 Cantos. 19 July-14 August 1965

The United States of America Pavilion, São Paulo. VIII Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna. 4 September-28 November 1965.
Exhibition organized by the Pasadena Art Museum.
Catalogue with introduction in English and Spanish by Walter Hopps. Additional catalogues in Portuguese only as well as English only, the latter for the U.S. showing in 1966

Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. 20th Century Painting and Sculpture: An Exhibition Selected from Private Collections in Connecticut. 17 September-24 October 1965.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 28 October-5 December 1965.
Catalogue with foreword by Gerald Nordland

Allan Stone Gallery, New York. Founding Fathers Exhibition: Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell and Barnett Newman. 26 October-13 November 1965

San Francisco Museum of Art. Art: An Environment for Faith. 15 November-15 December 1965.
An exhibition of contemporary art presented by The Union of American Hebrew Congregations on the occasion of its 48th General Assembly, "Reform Judaism, a Faith for Our Time."
Catalogue with introduction by Mildred Constantine

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. 8 December 1965-30 January 1966.
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