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Adolph Gottlieb

(American, 1903–1974)

Adolph Gottlieb

Flying lines, 1967

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Adolph Gottlieb

Untitled, ca. 1940–1949

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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
1944 - 1945: President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
1944: Awarded First Prize, Brooklyn Society of Artists, Annual Exhibition
1952: Received purchase prize, University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting
1957: Taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 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 Art Commission, New York, NY
1970: Suffered a 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

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)
2002: Adolph Gottlieb: A Survey Exhibition, Jewish Museum, New York, USA (solo)
Vertical Moves: The Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (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, USA (solo)
Conrad Marca-Relli, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
1990: Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper, 1966 - 1973, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1981: Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (solo)
1974: Adolph Gottlieb: 1903-1974, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
1968: Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (solo)
1959: Works: 1895-1932, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1958: A Decade of American Cubist Painting, 1913-1923, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA
1957: The City: 1900-1930, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA
1947: Introduction a la Peintures Moderne Americaine, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
1944: One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
1942: Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings, Artists Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1939: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1900-’34, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Newark Museum, Newark, USA (solo)
New York Public Library, New York, USA (solo)
1930: Exhibition Commemorative des Dessins: Isadora Duncan par A. Walkowitz, Galerie Brummer, Paris, France
Dudensing Galleries, New York, USA
1920: Galleries of Societe Anonyme, Paris, France
1915: The Armory Show, second exhibition, Gallery 291, New York, USA
Gallery 291, New York, USA

Public Collections

: UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
: Tate Britain, London, UK
: Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
: Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Ein Harod, Israel
: Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
: MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
: Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
: MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY
: Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
: MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Literature

2006: Adolph Gottlieb. New York: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 2006
1998: Adolph Gottlieb, Pictographs. New York: Knoedler & Company, 1998 (catalogue)
1995: Alloway, Lawrence. Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 1995 (catalogue)