Richard Smith at the Jewish Museum, NYC in ‘After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection’
Image: Richard Smith A Whole Year a Half a Day, (1966). Installation view Jewish Museum, New York. © Hazlitt Holland and Hibbert
Richard Smith’s ‘A Whole Year a Half a Day IX’ is included in the group exhibition titled After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection, at the Jewish Museum in New York City, USA. The exhibition features works by 47 intergenerational and internationally-based artists made between 1963 – 2023. It will run from 24 March to 1 October 2023.
‘A Whole Year a Half a Day IX’ (1966) is the ninth shaped canvas from a twelve-part series of works that visualise the idea of time passing through sequential change in both colour and shaped based on a desk calendar. The work has previously been displayed in Jewish Museum in Smith’s seminal 1968 solo exhibition, along with the eleven other shaped canvases from the whole "‘A Whole Year a Half a Day’ series.
Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was a generous supporter of his colleagues, who befriended and mentored countless younger artists. The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation was established by Newman’s widow, Annalee after her husband’s death in 1979 as a means to further the spirit of great art that Barnett Newman exhibited, by giving grants. Diverse in style, training, background, and age, the foundation’s grantees—whose works make up this exhibition—share Newman’s seriousness of purpose, as well as his unrelenting drive to explore the outer limits of his own ideas.
The works featured in the exhibition are part of a larger gift to the Jewish Museum in 2018, comprising of artworks made by the recipients of The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award.
