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The Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, a research arm of Harvard University Art Museums, has been given Barnett Newman’s studio materials. The gift includes discarded paint trials, notes, sketches, and models of Broken Obelisk and gives researchers technical information about the artists studio practice.
Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, and Tony Smith at the Betty Parsons Gallery By Hans Namuth (1915-1990) Gelatin silver print, April 1951. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift of the estate of Hans Namuth
I just wonder what they are going to do with all of Barnett’s stuff. That guy was a serious artist.