Number 88, 1950 (Blue)

Object Details

Artist

Ad Reinhardt, American, b. Buffalo, New York, 1913–1967

Provenance

The artist

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, to 13 June 1969

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 13 June 1969-6 March 1972

Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972

Exhibition History

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, 16 June-1 August 1965, no. 95, ill. p. 174.

THE JEWISH MUSEUM, New York. Ad Reinhardt Paintings, 23 November 1966-15 January 1967, no. 46, ill.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 709.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York," 22 May-21 September 1980, no. 16, color ill. p. 61.

DUKE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART, Durham, North Carolina. "Paintings of the 50s: Another Look, a loan of twenty-one paintings from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 3 October-27 November 1983, ill. p. 14.

FONDATION CARTIER, Jouy-en-Josas, France. Azur, 28 Mai-12 September 1993, ill. pp. 254-55.

Published References

NEWMAN, BARNETT. "The New York School Question," Art News 64/5 (September 1965), ill. p.41.

TUCHMAN, MAURICE. New York School: The First Generation (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971): no. 103, ill. p. 135.

LERNER, ABRAM, et. al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974): pp. 737-38, colorplate.

DE MAZIA, VIOLETTA. "E Pluribus Unum--Part III," Journal of the Art Department, The Barnes Foundation 8/1 (Spring 1977): plate 121, p. 40.

LIPPARD, LUCY R. Ad Reinhardt (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981): 70, 76. [N.B. Title of Number 88, 1950 (blue) incorrectly given as Abstract Painting.]

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. Ad Reinhardt (New York: Rizzoli International, 1991): fig. 6, p. 22.

WHEELER, DANIEL. Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present (New York: Vendome Press, 1991): fig. 90, p. 60.

FONTAN DEL JUNCO, MANUEL and MARIA TOLEDO GUTIERREZ, eds. Ad Reinhardt: Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else (Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2021), fig. 4 (color), p. 51.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972

(1950)

Accession Number

72.244

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

75 1/4 x 143 3/8 in. (191.2 x 364.2 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_72.244

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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