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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Artist: Adolph Gottlieb
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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Untitled, from Flight
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Fairfield, CT
Signed, dated '1969' and numbered 205/250 in pencil (there were also 50 in Roman numerals), published by the International Rescue Committee, New York, framed.
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1970s American Modern Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Paper, Lithograph
Expanding
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Expanding" is a color screenprint made by Adolph Gottlieb in 1967. The work is number 4 from an edition of 75. The work is signed and dated in pencil, lower left, "Adolph Gottlieb 1...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
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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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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Pink High
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Pink High, 1969
color silkscreen, edition of 95
24 x 19 inches
Gottlieb first began experimenting with printing when he refashioned a skirt pleating press into a printmaking press i...
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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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Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artists)
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, Edgar Levy, Lucille Corcos and Ether Gottlieb
Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artist), 1...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Etching
Rosy Mood
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb
Rosy Mood, 1967
Color silkscreen, ed. of 75
25 x 19 inches
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
Flying Lines
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb
Flying Lines, 1967
color silkscreen
Edition of 75
30 x 22 inches
Gottlieb first began experimenting with printing when he refashioned a skirt pleating press into a ...
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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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Signs
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb
Signs, 1967
screenprint, ed. of 75
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Blue Night
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph GOTTLIEB
Blue Night, 1970
Color silkscreen, edition of 200
31 x 24 in.
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
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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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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Adolph Gottlieb "Black & Grey" Silkscreen
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 re...
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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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Pink Ground
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb
Pink Ground, 1972
screenprint, ed. of 150
36 x 27 5/8 in. (91.4 x 70.2 cm)
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1970s Color-Field Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
Blues on Green
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb
Blues on Green, 1971
screenprint, ed. of 150
31 7/8 x 22 1/2 in. (81 x 57.2 cm)
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1970s Color-Field Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
Black Field
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb
Black Field, 1972
color silkscreen, ed. of 150
36 x 27 3/4 in. (91.4 x 70.5 cm)
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1970s Color-Field Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
Two Bars
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
lithograph
edition of 100
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1960s Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Lithograph
Flurry
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Silkscreen
edition of 75
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1960s Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Screen
Chrome Yellow Green Disc
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 50
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1960s Adolph Gottlieb Art
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Lithograph
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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.
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