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Biography
1903
Born: in New York, USA
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, The 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
Awarded First Prize, Brooklyn Society of Artists, Annual Exhibition
1944 - 1945
President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
1952
Received purchase prize, Univ of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting
1957
Taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 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 The Art Commission, New York, NY
1970
Suffered 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
Exhibitions
2009
"Adolph Gottlieb", Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany (solo)
2008
"Adolph Gottlieb", Musée d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France (solo) "Adolph Gottlieb", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
2007
"Adolph Gottlieb", American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo) "Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints ", AMUM - Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (solo) "Adolph Gottlieb: Prints 1933–1946", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2006
"Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation", The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (solo) "Gottlieb Escultor", Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
2005
"Adolph Gottlieb", American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
2004
"Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs 1941-1951", PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY (solo) "Adolph Gottlieb 1960´s paintings", Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003
"Adolph Gottlieb", Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (solo) "Adolph Gottlieb: Early Paintings and Works on Paper", Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2002
"Adolph Gottlieb - A Survey Exhibition", The Jewish Museum of New York, New York, NY (solo) "Vertical Moves: The Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (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, CA (solo)
1990
"Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper, 1966 - 1973", Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1981
"Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
1974
"Adolph Gottlieb: 1903-1974", MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1968
"Retrospective", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
1959
“Works: 1895-1932”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1958
“A Decade of American Cubist Painting, 1913-1923”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1957
“The City: 1900-1930”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1947
"Introduction a la Peintures Moderne Americaine", Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
1944
“One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1942
"Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings", Artists Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1939
“Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1900-’34”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (solo) New York Public Library, New York, NY (solo)
1930
‘Exhibition Commemorative des Dessins: Isadora Duncan par A. Walkowitz”, Galerie Brummer, Paris, France Dudensing Galleries, New York, NY
1920
Galleries of Societe Anonyme, Paris, France
1918
Inaugural exhibition, Society of Independent Artists; “Interpretation of the Dances of Isadora Duncan,” Daniel Gallery, NY
1915
"The Armory Show", second exhibition, Gallery 291, New York, NY
1915
Gallery 291, New York, NY
1914
Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery (solo)
Selected Public Collections:
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Ein Harod, Israel Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal Tate Britain, London, UK Tate Modern, London, UK Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Literature
2006
Adolph Gottlieb. New York: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 2006
1998
Adolph Gottlieb, Pictographs. New York: Knoedler & Company, 1998 (catalogue)
