Adolph Gottlieb

Estate of the Artist
Collection of Esther Gottlieb
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale
Acquired by the present owner from the above

New York, Kootz Gallery, Gottlieb-New Paintings, January 1951
University of Minnesota, University Gallery, 40 American Painters, 1940-50, June - July 1951, illustrated
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, American Vanguard Art for Paris, December 1951 - January 1952
Paris, Galerie de France, Regards sur la Peinture Americaine, February - March 1952
The Arts Club of Chicago; Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Hans Hofmann, January - March 1953
Bennington College Gallery; Williamstown, Williams College, Lawrence Museum, A Retrospective Show of the Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb, April - May 1954
London, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mysterious Sign, October - December 1960
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Adolph Gottlieb, February - October 1968, p. 48, illustrated
New York, Knoedler & Co.; Houston, Meredith Long & Company, Adolph Gottlieb Pictographs: A Selection from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, March - May 1998, illustrated in color
Scottsdale, Bentley Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings 1938-1973, November - December 1999

Carlyle Burrows, "Art: Vanguard Works Selected for Exhibition," New York Herald Tribune, December 30, 1951, illustrated
James Fitzsimmons, “Art for Export: Will it Survive the Voyage?" The Art Digest, January 1, 1952
Diane Waldman, "Gottlieb: Signs and Suns" ARTnews, Vol. 66, February 1968, illustrated in color on the cover

This work is in good condition overall. There are scattered hairline cracks to the surface. There is evidence of wear and handling around the edges with some scattered pinpoint losses along the lateral sides. There are no signs of restoration under Ultraviolet light inspection. Framed.
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"Sometimes when I became too aware of what some of the symbolism was, I would just eliminate it because it bored me. So I would then look for new, fresh images. I liked to surprise myself. The surprise in a painting is not the surprise of discovering some kind of a story or myth, it's the surprise of finding a clear statement about something that you felt and then to see it, to see this feeling become materialized in paint, then it really exists. And until it is materialized, it's not really certain whether this really exists or not. So in a way, I suppose, what I have been doing with my painting is making manifest certain feelings that I have. And also ideas in their intangible form. Then I know that I am actually alive and this is not all a figment of some imagination." - Adolph Gottlieb, 1967