Object number1995.21

Portrait of Barnett Newman

Date1953

Artist Hedda Sterne (American b. Romania, 1910 - 2011)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 89 x 27 in. (226.06 x 68.58 cm)
Unframed: 88 x 26 in. (223.52 x 66.04 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

InscribedInscribed (verso, on label along vertical stretcher): The Queens Museum / New York City Building / Flushing Meadow - Corona Park, Flushing, NY 11368 / EXHIBITION: Hedda Sterne: Forty years / EXHIBITION DATES: February 2-April 14, 1985 / ARTIST: Hedda Sterne / TITLE: Barnett Newman / MEDIUM/DATE: Oil on Canvas, 1952 / LENDER: [blank]; (stamped twice on horizontal stretcher: THE BETTY PARSONS GALLERY / 21 WEST 57TH ST. NEW YORK CITY / ARTIST: Hedda Sterne / TITLE: Portrait of B. / SIZE: 88 x 26 NUMBER: 2932; (in white chalk on vertical stretcher): 78 E 71ST HILDA STERNE

BibliographyUninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne (Champaign: Krannert Art Museum, 2007), fig. 57 repr.

Vassar Exhibitions

XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection

Twentieth-Century American Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Exhibition HistoryChampaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, "The Flux of Life: Hedda Stern, A Retrospective," January 21, 2006- March 26, 2006;

Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, January 12 - March 11 2007;

"Twentieth Century American Women Artists", September 18 - November 2, 2007. (Park Avenue Bank: New York)

Poughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "XL: Large-scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection," Jan 30 - March 29, 2015

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