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Ad (Adolf Frederick) Reinhardt

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Ad (Adolf Frederick) Reinhardt (1913 - 1967) was active/lived in New York.  Ad Reinhardt is known for Minimal-monochrome expression.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Ad Reinhardt was an early exponent of Minimal Art and a prominent figure in the New York contemporary art scene. His commitment to painting was purely to the process of painting, and he is best remembered for his all-black, large-scale paintings of the 1960s.

Reinhardt has been described as the first important American painter who was an abstractionist from beginning to end. He was known for his humorous, actually hilarious, swipes at the art world such as his dismissal of Thomas Hart Benton as an 'inconsequential ear of corn' and Jackson Pollock as an 'obscure leaf on the tree of art', etc. Not surprisingly, Reinhardt was a controversial figure. Other examples of his making fun of his contemporary artists can be found in his own semi-facetious chronology of his life which lists "1938 - Listens to neighbor Stuart Davis' loud ragtime jazz records, looks at his loud colored shirts on clotheslines... 1939 - Disagrees with Matta about importance in art of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7546 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  179
Magazine References:  15

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15 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Ad (Adolf Frederick) Reinhardt
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Front Page March 2004 Editors, Art in America No
ARTnews ARTtalk March 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction Datebook January 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 2003 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Portrait of the Art World October 2002 Editors, ARTnews No
American Art Review The Montclair Art Museum August 2002 Stavitsky, Gail Yes
Art in America Front Page June 2001 Editors, Art in American No
ARTnews National News June 2001 Editors, ARTnews No
Art & Auction (bitter) Sweet Charity April 2001 Vincent, Steven Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene November 2000 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art & Auction The Art Show February 2000 Adams, Rebecca Knapp Yes
Art in America Versions of Rapture September 1996 Rubenstein, Raphael Yes
ARTnews Living With Art March 1996 Landi, Ann Yes
American Art Review American Art 1900-1940 October 1994 Adams, Christy Yes
179 Book References for Ad (Adolf Frederick) Reinhardt
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1997 Cernuschi, Claude Not Illustration but the Equivalent A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism 172 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1995 Adams, H. and Johnson, K. Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art 192 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 127 Yes
1995 Munhall, Edgar Whistler and Montesquiou The Butterfly and the Bat 176 Yes
1995 Shell, Marc Art & Money (University of Chicago) 230 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1993 Gardner, James Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc) 227 No
1993 Joachimides, Christos (others) American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
(Exhibition catalog)		 490 Yes
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1993 McEvilley, Thomas The Exile's Return Toward a Redefinition of Painting 231 No
1993 Thistlewood, David (editor) American Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1992 Kingsley, April The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art 416 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1991 Doss, Erika Benton, Pollock and the Politics of Modernism 445 No
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Murken, Axel/Christa Murken Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts 358 Yes
1991 Museum of Contemporary Art Ad Reinhardt
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol 377 No
1990 Ross, Clifford Abstract Expressionism/Creators and Critics/An Anthology 304 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Auping, Michael Abstraction, Geometry, Painting Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Lynton, Norbert The Story of Modern Art 400 Yes
1989 Mackie, Alwynne Art/Talk Theory and Practice in Abstract Expression 301 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Clarke, David J The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture 410 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1987 Auping, Michael Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments
(Exhibition catalog)		 302 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1987 Whitford, Frank Understanding Abstract Art 160 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay) Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art of the 1930s The Age of Anxiety 264 Yes
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1985 Siegel, Jeanne Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s 235 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Livingston, Jane Ad Reinhardt Seventeen Works
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Guilbaut, Serge How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art 277 No
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Johnson, Ellen H (editor) American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980 274 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Buettner Stewart American Art Theory 1945-1970 213 No
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Lippard, Lucy R Ad Reinhardt 216 Yes
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Russell, John The Meanings of Modern Art 429 Yes
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1980 Rowell, Margit Ad Reinhardt and Color
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Krauss, Rosalind E Grids Format and Image in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1978 Hobbs, Robert/Gail Levin Abstract Expression The Formative Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 New York Graphic Society New York School The First Generation 228 Yes
1977 Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 No
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
1977 Societe des Expositions American Art in Belgium
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1976 Bader, Barbara American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within 615 Yes
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Acquisition Priorities Aspects of Postwar Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Wasserman, Emily The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art) 91 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Busch, Julia A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s 236 Yes
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1974 McConathy, Dale Ad Reinhardt A Selection from 1937-1952
(Exhibition catalog)		 31 Yes
1974 Woolfenden, William E. (Foreward); Garmett McCoy (Intro) From Reliable Sources, Archives of American Art An Exhibition of Letters from the Smithsonian Instituteion
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Kramer, Hilton The Age of the Avant-Garde An Art Chronicle 1956-1972 617 No
1973 McChesney, Mary Fuller A Period of Exploration San Francisco 1945-1950 91 Yes
1973 Pacquement, Alfred Ad Reinhardt
(Exhibition catalog)		 76 Yes
1973 Van Der Marck, Jan American Art Third Quarter Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Ashton, Dore The New York School A Cultural Reckoning 246 No
1972 Gruen, John The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York) 282 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1970 Arnason, H H Ad Reinhardt Black Paintings 1951-1967
(Exhibition catalog)		 27 No
1970 Boston University American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Rose, Barbara American Painting The Twentieth Century 116 No
1970 Sandler, Irving The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expression 301 No
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1969 Geldzahler, Henry New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 494 Yes
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1969 Schulman, Leon The Direct Image in Contemporary American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 No
1968 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Minimal Art A Critical Anthology 448 No
1968 Coplans, John Serial Imagery
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1968 Goosen, E C Art of the Real U S A 1948-1968 64 Yes
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Rickey, George Constructivism Origins and Evolution 305 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1967 Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten 81 Yes
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)		 209 Yes
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1966 Pellegrini, Aldo New Tendencies in Art 320 Yes
1965 Los Angeles County Museum New York School-First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s 252 Yes
1965 Seitz, William C The Responsive Eye
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1964 Rosenberg, Harold The Anxious Object Art Today and Its Audience 272 No
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1963 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Americans 1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Museum of Modern Art Collection of Mr & Mrs Ben Heller
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
1961 Rodman, Selden Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects 234 No
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
1960 Walker Art Center 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1955 Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1951 Hess, Thomas B Abstract Painting Background and American Phase 164 Yes
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
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