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Adolph Gottlieb Biography
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1920
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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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2010 |
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Le Grand Geste, Sammlung Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany |
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2010 |
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Artists of the Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb, Charles Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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2010 |
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Adolph Gottlieb Retrospective in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice in cooperation with the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, and american contemporary art GALLERY Munich, September 2010 |
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2009 |
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Adolph Gottlieb, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany (solo)
Peggy Guggenheim e la nuova pittura Americana, ARCA, Ex-Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy |
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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)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Fifty Years of American Art, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, with Otto Hübner as curator for the Abstract Expressionism |
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2005 - 2006 |
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Ecole de New York, MAMAC Nice, France |
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2005 |
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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 Venedig in cooperation with american contemporary art GALLERY |
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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)
Conrad Marca-Relli, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt |
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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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Selected Public Collections |
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UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
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MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
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Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
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MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
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Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
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Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
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Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Ein Harod, Israel
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Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
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Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
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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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Alloway, Lawrence. Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 1995 (catalogue) |
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