Adolph Gottlieb Biography
New York, 1903 - Long Island, 1974
Master American painter Adolph Gottlieb was a founding member of The Ten, a group devoted to abstract art, and he became a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism . His style can be linked to that of Marc Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnet Newman among others. A major theme in his painting was the challenge to humans to resolve dualities within the universe, the pressure of opposites: male and female, chaos and order, creation and destruction, order and chaos.
Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League with Social Realists John Sloan and Robert Henri and in the 1920s he worked at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere in Paris.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - Adolph Gottlieb 'A new selection from the Foundation - oilpaintings from 1952-1973'
American Contemporary Art Gallery - Adolph Gottlieb 1960's paintings
Galeria Elvira Gonzalez - Adolph Gottlieb's Pictographs 1941-1951
PaceWildenstein - Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Richard Pousette-Dart 'New Collection'
American Contemporary Art Gallery - Abstraction of the 1960's
American Contemporary Art Gallery
SELECTED MUSUEMS AND COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma.
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Georgia
Krannert Art Museum, Illinois
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, Londres
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
University of Montana Museum of Fine Arts
