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- Gottlieb began the paintings he labeled Pictographs in 1941, when the Great Depression had not yet ended and WWII was raging throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, and was fast approaching the U.S.
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Feb 28, 2020 · In 1990, the Gottlieb Foundation gifted WALL to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Apr 4, 2023 · The recent installation of Adolph Gottlieb’s sculpture WALL in The National Gallery on Washington DC gives us a chance to explore how the artist developed this sculpture, what was involved in its conservation, and its current installation.
Gottlieb painted a few works in a Surrealist style in 1940 and 1941. The results of his experiments manifested themselves in his series "Pictographs" which spanned from 1941 to 1950. In his painting Voyager's Return, he juxtaposes these images in compartmentalized spaces.
Gottlieb began painting his Pictograph paintings in 1941. In 1943 he and Rothko drafted a letter to the New York Times that outlined the position of Abstract Expressionism for the first time.
- American
- March 14, 1903
- New York, New York
- March 4, 1974
Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was born in New York to Jewish parents. From 1920-1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which he traveled in France and Germany for a year.
- American, Jewish
- March 14, 1903
- New York, United States
- March 4, 1974
In 1922 he came back to America and studied painting at the Art Students League, learning to do things that were not exactly literal and to work from imagination and memory (1967 interview, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.