Adolph Gottlieb

American (1903-1974)

Born in New York City in 1903, Adolph Gottlieb was one of the major abstract expressionist painters of the New York School.  He studied under John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League of New York from 1920 to 1921.  In 1921 Gottlieb left for Paris, studying at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and in Berlin and Munich.  Upon his return to New York City, he continued his studies at Parsons School of Design.  Gottlieb became friends with Barnett  Newman, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery and John Graham  and, in 1935, Gottlieb and Rothko founded “The Ten,” a group devoted to abstract and expressionist art.  In the late 30s Gottlieb spent nine months near Tucson, Arizona, where his work became distilled to a more basic form.  In 1941, Gottlieb began work on his “Pictographs” series, then from 1951 to 1957 “Grids and Imaginary Landscapes,”  from 1957 to 1974 “Bursts,” and “Imaginary Landscapes” in the mid-1960s.  He is considered one of the first color field painters.

In 1968 the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum collaborated on a retrospective exhibition of Gottlieb’s art that filled both museums.  Gottlieb participated in 56 solo exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions.  His work is in the collections of more than 140 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum.

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