Page 31 - Studio International - June 1967

Barnett Newman
Adam 1951-2
Oil on canvas
96 x 80 in.
Lent by Mr and Mrs Ben
Heller, New York
The largest and latest of the
four paintings by Barnett
Newman shown at the 1959
Tate exhibition: a revelation
for many young painters

an absence of relish in the matière as an end in itself....' way or another with Cornwall and with St Ives in
Heron criticized a 'lack of resonance in colour' and the particular—had to take new bearings in totally changed
over-centralized composition; he anticipated a 're- circumstances. Sometimes this meant a change of style,
habilitation of figuration', and concluded: 'I would like sometimes not. For William Scott, contact with the New
to end by insisting that to me and to those English York painters from 1953 onwards confirmed his sense of
painters with whom I associate, your new school comes being irrevocably a European artist. But for many of
as the most vigorous movement we have seen since the them, a particular American solution was relevant.
war ...we shall now watch New York as eagerly as Paris Bryan Wynter's painting altered radically after he had
for new developments.... ,21 seen the I.C.A. Tobey exhibition in May 1955; Roger
Heron and his friends—most of them associated in one Hilton came close to De Kooning's Women at one
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