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Abstract Painting
Abstract Painting

Abstract Painting

Artist Ad Reinhardt American, 1913–1967
Date1949
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 60 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (153.7 x 102.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number86.3
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated New York, 1949; collection of the artist; given to Edgar Falcon Thorne (d. 2004), New York, later Warrenton, NC, early 1950s; sold to
NCMA, 1986.

Published References"La Chronique des Arts: Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1986," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1418 (1987), listed 48.

"From the Collections: Loan," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 1986), illus. (b-w) 17.

Claudine Humblet, La Nouvelle Abstraction Américaine 1950-1970, Vol. 1 (Milan: Skira, 2003), illus. (color) 183.

Ad Reinhardt: «Art Is Art... And Everything Else is Everything Else» (exhibition catalogue) (Madrid: Fundacíon Juan March, 2021), cat. no. 22 (illus. color).Exhibition HistoryPossibly New York, NY, Betty Parsons Gallery, "Ad Reinhardt," October-November 19, 1949.

Madrid, Fundacíon Juan March, "Ad Reinhardt: «Art Is Art... And Everything Else is Everything Else»," October 15, 2021–January 16, 2022, cat. no. 22. Object Rights Statement

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