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Adolph Gottlieb Art

American, 1903-1974

Adolph Gottlieb was an American Abstract Expressionist artist known for his prints, paintings and sculptures. He is considered one of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionists. 

From 1920–21 Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which, having determined to become an artist, he left high school at the age of 17 and worked his passage to Europe on a merchant ship. He traveled in France and Germany for a year. He lived in Paris for 6 months during which time he visited the Louvre Museum every day and audited classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Gottlieb spent the next year traveling in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other parts of Central Europe, visiting museums and art galleries. When he returned, he was one of the most traveled New York artists. 

Gottlieb had his first solo exhibition at the Dudensing Galleries in New York City in 1930. During the 1920s and early 1930s, he formed lifelong friendships with other artists such as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Milton Avery, and John Graham. In 1935, he and nine others, including Ben-Zion, Joseph Solman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Harris, Jack Kufeld, Mark Rothko, and Louis Schanker, known as “The Ten,” exhibited their works together until 1940. It was in the late 1930s when Gottlieb moved to the desert in Tuscon, where he moved from an ExpressionistRealist style approach to a style that combines elements of Surrealism and formalist abstraction

Throughout his career, Gottlieb had 56 solo exhibitions and was included in over 200 group exhibitions. His works of art are in the collections of more than 140 major museums around the world.

Gottlieb was accomplished as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. He designed and oversaw the construction of a 1500 square-foot stained glass façade for the Milton Steinberg Center in New York City in 1954, and he designed a suite of 18 stained glass windows for the Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn.  He was the first of his generation to have his art collected by the Museum of Modern Art (1946) and the Guggenheim Museum (1948).

Gottlieb suffered a major stroke in 1970 that left him paralyzed except for his right arm and hand. In 1972 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he continued to paint and to exhibit his art until his death in March of 1974.

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"Untitled" (From the Flight Portfolio)
"Untitled" (From the Flight Portfolio)

"Untitled" (From the Flight Portfolio)

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in Warren, NJ

Adolph Gottilieb (1903-1974), New York, 1969, signed "161/250" and dated 1969 . In good condition Unframed. Measures 24x19

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20th Century Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Lithograph

Black Field
Black Field

Black Field

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

Color screenprint on white wove paper, 1972. Signed by the artist dated in pencil lower left. Numbered 67/150 in pencil lower right. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink ...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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ORANGE OVAL
ORANGE OVAL

ORANGE OVAL

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in Portland, ME

Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974) ORANGE OVAL, Screenprint in colors, 1972. Edition of 150, printed on wove paper. Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 143/150. Printed by Kelpr...

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1970s Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Adolph Gottlieb -- Germination
Adolph Gottlieb -- Germination

Adolph Gottlieb -- Germination

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Located in BRUCE, ACT

Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) Germination, 1969 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper Hand signed and dated lower left Numbered 25/60 Sheet size 56.5 x 76 cm

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1960s Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Lithograph

Beacon

Beacon

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this color lithograph on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 14/100 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York. Catalogue refe...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Chrome Green

Chrome Green

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this color screenprint on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 125/150 in pencil by Gottlieb. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp verso. Publ...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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TWO BARS

TWO BARS

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in Portland, ME

Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974). TWO BARS. Color lithograph, 1969. Edition of 100, Signed and dated, and numbered 11/100, all in pencil. Exhibition label, verso. 29 1/2 x 21. ...

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1960s Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Lithograph

Flurry

Flurry

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 74/75 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Signs

Signs

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this scarce color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 44/75 in pencil. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Flury
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Flury

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Compared with his peers, the original Abstract Expressionist posse (Arshile Gorky, Hans Hoffmann, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko) Adolph Gottlieb arguably created the most easily r...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Black Field
Black Field

Black Field

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Adolph Gottlieb Black Field 1972 Screenprint 36 x 28 in. Edition of 150 Pencil signed and numbered ABOUT THE WORK In the vertical "Bursts," the series relies...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art

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Adolph Gottlieb "Black Signs" -Wool Artistic Rug - Publisher Gloria F. Ross
Adolph Gottlieb "Black Signs" -Wool Artistic Rug - Publisher Gloria F. Ross

Adolph Gottlieb "Black Signs" -Wool Artistic Rug - Publisher Gloria F. Ross

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

-Black Signs by Adolph Gottlieb -54 x 72 in, 137 x 183 cm -Designed in 1967, Rug woven in 1970 -Edition ⅕ -Published by Gloria F. Ross, New York City -Condition: Perfect/Original C...

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Mid-20th Century French Modern Adolph Gottlieb Art

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