Adolph Gottlieb

(American, 1903–1974)

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Adolph Gottlieb

Black Field, 1972

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Biography

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

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)

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.