Paint trial on stretched canvas | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Recorded Ownership History: Collection of Barnett and Annalee Newman
Estate of Annalee Newman
The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation
Copyright: © The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Number: ARCH.2007.9.33
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Description: Paint trial on cotton duck canvas, stretched onto a five membered wooden strainer with butt joins and one cross bar. Canvas is attached on strainer sides with staples. One half of top surface is artist primed. Approximately ten sample color arrangements, with blue and red arrangements on the white priming and red, yellow, and blue arrangements on the unprimed side. Verso is painted with shades of red acrylic paint (estimated by solvent test). The canvas has frayed edges and stains overall. Cracking and lifting on verso has previously been consolidated.