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Adolph Gottlieb

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Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974) was active/lived in New York.  Adolph Gottlieb is known for Primitive painting-totemic non objective and realism.

Born in New York City in 1903, Adolph Gottlieb was a founding member of The Ten, a group devoted to abstract art with whom he was active for about five years.  He became a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism whose painting style is linked to Marc Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnet Newman.  A major theme in Gottlieb's painting is the challenge to humans to resolve dualities within the universe, the pressure of opposites: male and female, chaos and order, creation and destruction, order and chaos.

His career is described as having four phases: Pictographs (1940s), Grids and Imaginary Landscapes (1951 to 1957), Bursts (1957 to 1974) and Imaginary Landscapes (1960s).  Although he lived primarily in New York City and was one of the few Abstract Expressionists born in that city, time spent in Arizona and Provincetown, Massachusetts had a marked influence on him.

Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League with Social Realists John Sloan and Rob   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7988 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Adolph Gottlieb


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Design
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Social Realism
  • Still Life
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • Europe
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
  • Brooklyn Society of Artists
  • Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
  • Salons of America
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • John Sloan
  • Robert Henri
Art School
  • Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Teacher
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
Added Description
  • Mural Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim, New York City
  • Kootz Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Brooklyn Society of Artists-
  • Salons of America-
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Salon des Tuileries

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