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Adolph Gottlieb Biography
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1903 |
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Born in New York, USA
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Enrolled at the Art Students League, where he studied painting with John Sloan
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1921 |
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Attended sketch classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and visited the Louvre Museum daily
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1921 |
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Studied at Parsons School of Design, The Art Students League, Cooper Union and the Educational Alliance Art School.
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1935 |
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Founded "The Ten", a group With Mark Rothko, Lee Gatch, William Baziotes and Ilya Bolotowsky among others, that exhibited until 1940
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1936 |
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Worked in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project’s easel painting division
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1937 - 1939 |
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Lived in the Arizona desert
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1941 |
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Returned to New York
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1974 |
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Died in New York, USA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Adolph Gottlieb - Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern (solo)
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2008
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Adolph Gottlieb - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice (solo)
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2008
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Adolph Gottlieb - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY (solo)
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2007
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Adolph Gottlieb - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
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2007
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Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints - AMUM - Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (solo)
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2007
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Adolph Gottlieb - Prints 1933–1946 - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
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2006
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Adolph Gottlieb - Early Prints from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (solo)
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2006
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Gottlieb Escultor - Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca (solo)
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2006
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Gottlieb Escultor - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia (solo)
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2005
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Adolph Gottlieb - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
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2004
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Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs 1941-1951 - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY (solo)
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2004
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Adolph Gottlieb 1960´s paintings - September 2004 Sep 15 - Oct 15, 2004 - Galería Elvira González, Madrid (solo)
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2003
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Adolph Gottlieb - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (solo)
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2003
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Adolph Gottlieb: Early Paintings and Works on Paper - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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2002
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Adolph Gottlieb - A Survey Exhibition - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY (solo)
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2002
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Vertical Moves: The Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb - PaceWildenstein - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY (solo)
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2002
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Adolph Gottlieb - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
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2001
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Gottlieb - Monotipos - Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca (solo)
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2001
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Gottlieb: Monotipos - Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca (solo)
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2001
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Adolph Gottlieb - Retrospektive - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (solo)
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2001
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Adolph Gottlieb - Fundación Juan March, Madrid (solo)
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2000
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Adolph Gottlieb: A Survey of Prints, 1940-1974 - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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1990
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Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper, 1966 - 1973 - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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1981
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Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
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1974
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Adolph Gottlieb: 1903-1974 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (solo)
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1959
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Solo exhibition, “Works: 1895-1932,” Zabriskie Gallery, NY
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1958
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Group exhibition, “A Decade of American Cubist Painting, 1913-1923,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
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1957
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Group exhibition, “The City: 1900-1930,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
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1944
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“One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz,” Brooklyn Museum
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1939
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“Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1900-’34,” Brooklyn Museum; solo exhibitions at the Newark Museum and the New York Public Library
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1930
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‘Exhibition Commemorativ des Dessins: Isadora Duncan par A. Walkowitz,” Galerie Brummer, Paris
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1920
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Exhibition at Galleries of Societe Anonyme, with Derain, Hartley, Kandinsky, Man Ray and Stella
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1918
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Inaugural exhibition, Society of Independent Artists; “Interpretation of the Dances of Isadora Duncan,” Daniel Gallery, NY
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1916
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Forum Show at Anderson Galleries; fourth exhibition at 291
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1915
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Exhibited several works at the Armory Show; second exhibition at 291
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1915
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Third exhibition at 291
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1914
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First of several solo exhibitions at Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery
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1907
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First one-person exhibition, Julius Haas’s frame shop
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Public Collections
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 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 (England)
Tate Modern, London (England)
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID, USA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA, USA
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, USA
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA, USA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, USA
Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA
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| Literature |
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M. Friedman: Adolph Gottlieb (Minneapolis, 1963)
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H. Rand: ‘Adolph Gottlieb in Context', Artmagazine, li/6 (1977), pp. 112–35
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I. Sandler: ‘Adolph Gottlieb', A. Int., xxi/3 (1977), pp. 35–8
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K. Wilkin: ‘Adolph Gottlieb: The Pictographs', A. Int., xxi/6 (1977), pp. 27–33 [on the exhibition at Edmonton, Alta, A.G.]
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