About the Catalogue Raisonné - The Barnett Newman Foundation

Cover Image Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné was published in 2004 by The Barnett Newman Foundation and Yale University Press.

It was compiled by Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, who now serves as Executive Director of The Barnett Newman Foundation, and includes essays by Richard Shiff, who holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, the Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Art Libraries Society of North America awarded it the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award 2005.

The catalogue presents Newman’s entire oeuvre: paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphics, an architectural model, and ephemera in one definite volume. The book also includes an exhibition history, a bibliography, and an inventory of Newman’s personal library. The last has been updated since the publication of the catalogue raisonné and is available in its complete form on this website and onsite at the Foundation.

Within each catalogue entry, exhibitions and literature are referred to by short titles. A key to those titles is included in the book; it is also available to search and download below in order to facilitate side-by-side reading of a catalogue entry in the book and its citations in full.

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Chicago 1961

The Art Institute of Chicago. The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller. 22 September-14 October 1961.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2-31 December 1961; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 22 January-25 February 1962; Cleveland Museum of Art, 13 March-10 April 1962; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 30 April-3 June 1963; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 15 June-22 July 1962; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5 September-14 October 1962.
Organized for circulation by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Catalogue with text by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

Castleman 1976

Castleman, Riva. Prints of the Twentieth Century: A History. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1976).

Castleman 1973

Castleman, Riva. Modern Art in Prints. Exh. cat. The International Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973.

Brussels 1958

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. La nouvelle peinture américaine. 6 December 1958-4 January 1959.
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council at The Museum of Modern Art.
Catalogue with introduction by Alfred A. Barr, Jr., and artists' statements

Bonn 1992b

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. The Great Collections, 1: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from Cézanne to Pollock. 17 October 1992-10 January 1993.
Catalogue with texts by Pontus Hultén et al.

Bogotá 1975

Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá. Color as Language. 24 February-30 March 1975.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, 18 April-18 May 1975; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 12 June-20 July 1975; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 3 August-14 September 1975; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2 October-23 November 1975.
Organized by The International Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Checklist for Bogotá; individual catalogues for Caracas and Mexico City, with texts in Spanish by Kynaston McShine and Waldo Rasmussen

Bern 1979

Kunstmuseum, Bern. American Art of the Twentieth Century from the Museum of Modern Art. 16 February-16 April 1979.
ALSO SHOWN AT: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 19 May-16 July 1979; Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, August 1979; Museo Espagnol de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, October-November 1979; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, 18 February-12 April 1980.
Catalogue, titled Das Museum of Modern Art New York zu Gast im Kunstmuseum Bern und Museum Ludwig Köln, with texts by Waldo Rasmussen et al.

Berlin 1958

Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin. Die neue amerikanische Malerei. 3 September-1 October 1958.
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council at The Museum of Modern Art.
Catalogue with texts by Porter A. McCray and Arnold Rüdlinger and artists' statements

Basel 1958

Kunsthalle, Basel. Die neue amerikanische Malerei. 19 April-26 May 1958.
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of The International Council at The Museum of Modern Art.
Catalogue with texts by Arnold Rüdlinger and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and artists' statements

Ashton 1968

Ashton, Dore. ""New York Commentary: 'The Art of the Real' at the Museum of Modern Art."" Studio International 176, no. 903 (September 1968), pp. 92-93.