Pictograph

1942

Adolph Gottlieb

Associated Names
Adolph Gottlieb

Painter, American, 1903 - 1974

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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery 407-B

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Aaron I. Fleischman

  • Dimensions

    overall: 121.3 x 90.2 cm (47 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.101.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1903-1974]; his estate; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); private collection; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 1990 by Aaron I. Fleischman, Washington, D.C.; gift 2002 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • Adolph Gottlieb, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1968, no. 3, repro.

1983

  • The Painterly Figure, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1983, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1985

  • Adolph Gottlieb, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 1985, no. 3, repro.

1989

  • El Surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo [Surrealism Between the Old and the New World], Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands; Mapfre Foundation, Madrid, 1989-1990, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1968

  • "Melpomene and Graffiti," Art International XII, no. 4 (20 April 1968): repro. 21, 23.

1994

  • Hirsch, Sanford. The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb. New York, 1994: fig. III-I.

Inscriptions

lower right: ADOLPH GOTTLIEB

Wikidata ID

Q20193384

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