Gift of Adelaide de Menil Carpenter and Dominque de Menil. Oil on canvas, 132 1/2 x 50 1/8 inches (336.6 x 127.3 cm). The son of Polish immigrants, Newman studied at New York City’s Art Students League (1922–26) and at the City College of New York, from which he graduated in 1927. He The Menil Collection, Houston. Photograph by Bruce White, Courtesy of the Barnett Newman Foundation. ‘Ulysses’ was created in 1952 by Barnett Newman in Color Field Painting style. Barnett Newman, American painter whose large, austerely reductionist canvases influenced the colour-field painters of the 1960s. Dec 30, 2012 - Barnett Newman, Ulysses, 1952. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Barnett Newman's ''Ulysses,'' an epic 1952 blue-and-black striped painting, sold last night for a record price at Sotheby's to an American collector who was not identified. From The Menil Collection, Barnett Newman, Ulysses (1952), Oil on canvas, 132 × 50 in