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Ad Reinhardt

No. 18

Maker

Ad Reinhardt (American, 1913-1967)

Title

No. 18

Year

1956

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

oil paint

Supports

Dimensions

203.2 x 81.3 cm (80 x 32 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Unsigned

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Richard Brown Baker

Object Number

1996.11.43

Type

Publications

Articles

Framing Art and the Art of the Frame
Drawing from the Collection

Exhibition History

Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to Twentieth-Century American Art
Nov 12, 2004 – Mar 05, 2005
The New York School
Aaron Siskind in Context
Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

I am very skeptical about most of what people say pictures mean or paintings mean. I lean very much toward, way over toward a guy like Ad Reinhart, although I think he exaggerated, when he said pictures don’t mean anything. I have a kind of feeling that a work of art is something that you can never put your finger on in terms of meaning. I think that’s its essential quality.

(Siskind in audiotaped interview with Don Anderson, Louisville, Kentucky, April 29, 1970, Oral History Center, University Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville.)

New York School Abstraction
Nov 09, 2001 – Feb 17, 2002
Jim Isermann
Logic Rules
Nov 17, 2000 – Mar 04, 2001
The Moderns
Twentieth-Century Art from the Permanent Collection
Aug 06, 1993 – Mar 13, 1994

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Tombstone

Ad Reinhardt (American, 1913-1967)
No. 18, 1956
Oil on canvas
203.2 x 81.3 cm (80 x 32 inches)
Gift of Richard Brown Baker 1996.11.43

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