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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, New York, NY
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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, Paris, France
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1923 |
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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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1929 |
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Awarded joint prize in the Dudensing National Competition
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1935 |
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Became a founding member of "The Ten," a group devoted to expressionist and abstract painting
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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, near Tucson, AZ
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1939 |
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Won U.S. Treasury sponsored nationwide mural competition
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1941 |
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Returned to New York, NY
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1944 |
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Awarded First Prize, Brooklyn Society of Artists, Annual Exhibition
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1944 - 1945 |
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President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
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1952 |
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Received purchase prize, Univ of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting
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1957 |
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Taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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1961 |
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Awarded Third Prize, Pittsburg International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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1963 |
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Awarded Grand Premio, VII Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil
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1965 |
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Received the the American Academy of Achievement award, Dallas, TX
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1966 |
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Studio and contents destroyed by fire
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1967 |
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Appointed to The Art Commission, New York, NY
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1970 |
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Suffered stroke; confined to wheel-chair, left side paralyzed, continued painting
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1972 |
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Elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
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1974 |
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Died: in New York, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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"Adolph Gottlieb", Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany (solo)
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2008
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"Adolph Gottlieb", Musée d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France (solo)
"Adolph Gottlieb", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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"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)
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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)
"Gottlieb Escultor", Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
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2005
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"Adolph Gottlieb", American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
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2004
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"Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs 1941-1951", PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY (solo)
"Adolph Gottlieb 1960´s paintings", Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain (solo)
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2003
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"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)
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2002
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"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)
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2001
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"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)
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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, NY (solo)
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1968
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"Retrospective", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
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1959
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“Works: 1895-1932”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1958
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“A Decade of American Cubist Painting, 1913-1923”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
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1957
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“The City: 1900-1930”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
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1947
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"Introduction a la Peintures Moderne Americaine", Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
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1944
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“One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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1942
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"Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings", Artists Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1939
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“Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1900-’34”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (solo)
New York Public Library, New York, NY (solo)
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1930
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‘Exhibition Commemorative des Dessins: Isadora Duncan par A. Walkowitz”, Galerie Brummer, Paris, France
Dudensing Galleries, New York, NY
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1920
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Galleries of Societe Anonyme, Paris, France
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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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1915
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"The Armory Show", second exhibition, Gallery 291, New York, NY
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1915
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Gallery 291, New York, NY
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1914
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Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery (solo)
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Selected Public Collections:
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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
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| Literature |
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2006
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Adolph Gottlieb. New York: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 2006
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1998
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Adolph Gottlieb, Pictographs. New York: Knoedler & Company, 1998 (catalogue)
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1995
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Alloway, Lawrence. Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 1995 (catalogue)
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| Links to further information |
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