Pictograph

1946/1947

Adolph Gottlieb

Artist, American, 1903 - 1974

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with scraping on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 46.2 × 61.12 cm (18 3/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.57.9

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York); Gene Baro, New York and Washington, D.C.; Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 181.

2014

  • Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

Bibliography

2006

  • Brodie, Judith. "Adolph Gottlieb, Pictograph." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 35 (Fall 2006): 25, repro.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: Adolph Gottlieb; lower right verso in graphite: D Grey (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q64533348

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