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 Expressionist–Realist 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)
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
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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Screen, Color
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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Screen
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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Color, Lithograph
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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Color, Screen
Adolph Gottlieb -- Germination
By Adolph Gottlieb
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
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
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
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art
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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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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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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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By Adolph Gottlieb
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art
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James P. Johnson (1894-1955) was known as the father of "Stride" or "Harlem Stride," a blend of Ragtime and Jazz styles that became popular in the '20's. He composed 16 musicals, over 200 songs, a symphony, a piano concerto, two tone poems, and even an opera, mirroring the achievements of George Gershwin but never receiving the same level of recognition. Johnson's music inspired the likes of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and countless others. He began to earn a living as a pianist by playing cabarets and dance halls until he gained slightly wider recognition and created compositions for black broadway and jazz scores for classical orchestras.In 1949, James P. Johnson was invited by actor and trombonist Conrad Janis to participate in band of what Janis believed to be the Jazz greats - Johnson played piano, along with Henry Goodwin (trumpet), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Pops Foster (bass) and Baby Dodds (drums), with Janis on trombone.
In 1948, Conrad Janis' father Sidney Janis opened his gallery befriended artists like Gorky and Duchamp in the 1940's, and showed Adolph Gottlieb. It is possible that Adolph Gottlieb and James P. Johnson became acquainted in the 1940’s through the Janis family.
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Gottlieb, de Kooning, Will Baziotes, Gorky, Morris Graves, Hofmann, Motherwell, Pollock, Ad
Reinhardt, Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Bradley Walker Tomlin. An expressionist picture in the
personal collection of Harold Rosenberg, is the stamp of approval of quality as he is one of the
original voices of the abstract movement and held in the highest esteem as a critic.
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