Bio: Barnett Newman was born in New York and
was a central figure of the color-field abstractionist
painters. He was a student of Duncan Smith and John Sloan and
graduated from Cornell.
Alongside Robert Motherwell and
Mark Rothko, Newman was a founder of the New York based
Subjects of the Artist school.
Newman�s paintings contain unique imagery of a single field of
color interspersed by vertical bands. Later life he adopted a
monochrome palette.
Newman was a pioneer of the use of large scale canvases and a
style of painting which heralded the Minimalist movement..