Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) was a pivotal American abstract painter, renowned for his profound “black” paintings, composed of meticulous arrangements of varying black tones, revealing subtle ...

"Abstract Painting, No. 34", from 1964, is the third of my week's worth of Pics devoted to the Black Paintings of Ad Reinhardt, now on view in his centennial show at David Zwirner in New York.

Ad Reinhardt, “Number 2” (1949-1950), gouache, oil, and watercolor on paper, 22 1/2 x 31 in (image via davidzwirner.com) ...

A mong the new acquisitions currently on display at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art is a large square canvas called Abstract Painting that seems at first glance to be entirely black. Closer ...

This perfectly symmetrical black serigraph on plexiglass, created the year before Reinhardt passed away, corresponds with the black paintings he was preoccupied with in the last decade of his life, ...