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Adolph Gottlieb
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American
, 1903–1974)
Adolph Gottlieb
Flotsam,
1967
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Timeline
1903
Born in New York, NY
1920
Enrolled at the Art Students League, where he studied painting with John Sloan, New York, NY
1921
Attended sketch classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and visited the Louvre Museum daily, Paris, France
1923
Studied at Parsons School of Design, Art Students League, Cooper Union and the Educational Alliance Art School
1929
Awarded joint prize in the Dudensing National Competition
1935
Became a founding member of "The Ten," a group devoted to expressionist and abstract painting
1936
Worked in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project’s easel painting division
1937 - 1939
Lived in the Arizona desert, near Tucson, AZ
1939
Won U.S. Treasury sponsored nationwide mural competition
1941
Returned to New York, NY
1944 - 1945
President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
1944
Awarded First Prize, Brooklyn Society of Artists, Annual Exhibition
1952
Received purchase prize, University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting
1957
Taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn and at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1961
Awarded Third Prize, Pittsburg International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1963
Awarded Grand Premio, VII Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil
1965
Received the the American Academy of Achievement award, Dallas, TX
1966
Studio and contents destroyed by fire
1967
Appointed to Art Commission, New York, NY
1970
Suffered a stroke; confined to wheel-chair, left side paralyzed, continued painting
1972
Elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1974
Died in New York, NY
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Exhibitions
2014
Adolph Gottlieb Exhibitions in 2014:
Adolph Gottlieb: A New Selection
, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
2012
Adolph Gottlieb Exhibitions in 2012:
Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor
, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, October 27, 2012–February 17, 2013. Traveled to: Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 14–August 25, 2013; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, September 21, 2013–January 5, 2014.
Adolph Gottlieb: Gravity, Suspension, Motion—Paintings 1954–1972
, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb
, University of New Mexico Art Museum, NM
2010
Le Grand Geste, Sammlung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Artists of the Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb, Charles Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
Adolph Gottlieb Retrospective, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2009
Adolph Gottlieb, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany (solo)
Peggy Guggenheim e la nuova pittura Americana, ARCA, Ex-Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy
2008
Adolph Gottlieb, Musée d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2007
Adolph Gottlieb, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, USA (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb: Prints 1933–1946, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA (solo)
2006
Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA (solo)
Gottlieb Escultor, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Fifty Years of American Art, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Ecole de New York, Le Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France
2005
Adolph Gottlieb, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
Action Painting-Arte Americana 1940-1970, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2004
Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs 1941-1951 PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb 1960s paintings, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003
Adolph Gottlieb, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, USA (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb: Early Paintings and Works on Paper, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2002
Adolph Gottlieb: A Survey Exhibition, Jewish Museum, New York, USA (solo)
Vertical Moves: The Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
2001
Gottlieb - Monotipos, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain; Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb: Retrospektive, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (solo)
Adolph Gottlieb, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2000
Adolph Gottlieb: A Survey of Prints, 1940-1974, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Conrad Marca-Relli, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
1990
Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper, 1966 - 1973, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1981
Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (solo)
1974
Adolph Gottlieb: 1903-1974, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
1968
Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (solo)
1959
Works: 1895-1932, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1958
A Decade of American Cubist Painting, 1913-1923, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA
1957
The City: 1900-1930, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA
1947
Introduction a la Peintures Moderne Americaine, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
1944
One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
1942
Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings, Artists Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1939
Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1900-’34, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Newark Museum, Newark, USA (solo)
New York Public Library, New York, USA (solo)
1930
Exhibition Commemorative des Dessins: Isadora Duncan par A. Walkowitz, Galerie Brummer, Paris, France
Dudensing Galleries, New York, USA
1920
Galleries of Societe Anonyme, Paris, France
1915
The Armory Show, second exhibition, Gallery 291, New York, USA
Gallery 291, New York, USA
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Public Collections
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria Albright-KnoxArtGallery, Buffalo, New York AllenMemorialArt Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio Anderson Collection Museum at Stanford University, California Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois BallStateUniversityArt Museum, Muncie, Indiana Bennington College, Vermont Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin Brooklyn Museum, New York Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison Columbia University, New York Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire DallasMuseum of Art, Texas Des MoinesArtCenter, Iowa Detroit Institute of the Arts, Michigan Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York High Museum of Art, Atlanta,Georgia Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. HoodMuseum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Spain Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jewish Museum, New York HerbertF.JohnsonMuseum of Art, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, New York Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California LoweArt Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Miami Art Museum, Florida Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Montclair Art Institute, New Jersey Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon Museum of Ein Haron, Israel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of ModernArt, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, New York Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut New OrleansMuseum of Art, Louisiana Newark Museum, New Jersey Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, Pennsylvania Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. RoseArt Museum, BrandeisUniversity, Waltham, Massachusetts Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Santa BarbaraMuseum of Art, California Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts SniteMuseum of Art, University of NotreDameArtGallery, Indiana Tate, London Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond WalkerArtCenter, Minneapolis, Minnesota WhitneyMuseum of American Art, New York Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts YaleUniversityArtGallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Literature
2017
Visionaries: Creating the Modern Guggenheim (exhibition catalogue). New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2017: 240, 241, illustrated.
2016
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism (exhibition catalogue). London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2016; Agee, William C. Modern Art in America. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: 261, illustrated; Pasti, Carolina. A Life with Artists: Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof. Texts by Richard Armstrong, Tom Freudenheim, Carol Goldberg, Suzanne Landau et al. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publication, 2016: 67, illustrated.
2015
Miller, Dana, ed. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. Text by Adam D. Weinberg. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015: 152, illustrated.
2014
A Family Affair: Modern and Contemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Texts by Gwen Allen, David Cateforis and Evelyn C. Hankins, etc. Stanford, California; New York: The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, 2014: 100, illustrated; When Modern Was Contemporary: The Roy R. Neuberger Collection. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, 2014: 111–3, illustrated.
2013
Blanton Museum of Art: 110 Favorites from the Collection. Austin, Texas: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, 2013: 53, illustrated; Delong, Lea Rosson, ed. Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2013: 278, 279, illustrated.
2012
Adolph Gottlieb: Gravity, Suspension, Motion—Paintings 1954–1972 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Pepe Karmel. : The Pace Gallery, 2012; Decade: Contemporary Collection 2002–2012 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti. Buffalo, New York: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: 318, illustrated; Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950 (exhibition catalogue). Columbia, South Carolina: Columbia Museum of Art, 2012: 99, no. 29, illustrated.
