Abstract Painting - Grey

1950

Not on view

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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