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Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg print view role Collector Artist Patron dates 1914-2008 city Chicago state IL other cities New York, NY; sex F historical notes Newman collected tribal art along with paintings by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko along with works by American artists working in the early 1960s, such as Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Claes Oldenburg. Additionally, she collected paintings and sculpture by European modernists Hans Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, and Joan Miró. Her first husband was businessman Jay Z. Steinberg (d. 1954), her second husband was a Chicago stockbroker and real estate developer Albert Hardy Newman (d. 1988). Newman left artwork to both the Chicago Art Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has her papers. decades of activity 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Artist file: Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg; miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Muriel Kallis Newman papers, 1950-1983 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Anne Rorimer, 2010 Nov. 15-16. see details... «  back