Abstract Painting - Grey
In addition to being a painter, Reinhardt was an incisive critic and art historian. As an undergrad in the 1930s, he began his studies at Columbia University, New York, under Meyer Schapiro, and continued them at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts from 1946 through the time he worked on this picture. By the late 1940s, he had removed all figural references from his work in favor of more rigidly geometric forms.
Artwork Details
- Title: Abstract Painting - Grey
- Artist: Ad Reinhardt (American, Buffalo, New York 1913–1967 New York)
- Date: 1950
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry Geldzahler, 1976
- Object Number: 1976.352
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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