| Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg | |||||||||||||
| type | Collector Artist Patron | ||||||||||||
| dates | 1914-2008 | ||||||||||||
| city | Chicago | ||||||||||||
| state | IL | ||||||||||||
| other cities | New York, NY; | ||||||||||||
| sex | F | ||||||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:30 | ||||||||||||
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