Representative work by Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb

1903–1974 · American · Based in New York, USA

  • Art Students League of New York under John Sloan and Robert Henri (1920–1921)
  • Painting
  • Pictographs
  • Burst Series
  • Abstract Expressionism

Adolph Gottlieb moved from symbolic Pictographs to the increasingly simplified Burst paintings, where a disk hovers above an explosive gestural form. He also co-authored important public statements about the ambitions of Abstract Expressionism.

Painting; sculpture

Gallery Representation

Objects

Major Works

  • The Seer
  • Voyager’s Return
  • Eyes of Oedipus
  • Apaquogue
  • Blast I
  • Burst
  • Frozen Sounds Number 1
  • Labyrinth No. 1
  • Man Looking at Woman
  • Thrust

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Interviews & Writing

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