Adolph Gottlieb was an American Abstract Expressionist artist known for his prints, paintings and sculptures. He is considered one of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionists.
From 1920–21 Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which, having determined to become an artist, he left high school at the age of 17 and worked his passage to Europe on a merchant ship. He traveled in France and Germany for a year. He lived in Paris for 6 months during which time he visited the Louvre Museum every day and audited classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Gottlieb spent the next year traveling in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other parts of Central Europe, visiting museums and art galleries. When he returned, he was one of the most traveled New York artists.
Gottlieb had his first solo exhibition at the Dudensing Galleries in New York City in 1930. During the 1920s and early 1930s, he formed lifelong friendships with other artists such as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Milton Avery, and John Graham. In 1935, he and nine others, including Ben-Zion, Joseph Solman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Harris, Jack Kufeld, Mark Rothko, and Louis Schanker, known as “The Ten,” exhibited their works together until 1940. It was in the late 1930s when Gottlieb moved to the desert in Tuscon, where he moved from an Expressionist–Realist style approach to a style that combines elements of Surrealism and formalist abstraction.
Throughout his career, Gottlieb had 56 solo exhibitions and was included in over 200 group exhibitions. His works of art are in the collections of more than 140 major museums around the world.
Gottlieb was accomplished as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. He designed and oversaw the construction of a 1500 square-foot stained glass façade for the Milton Steinberg Center in New York City in 1954, and he designed a suite of 18 stained glass windows for the Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn. He was the first of his generation to have his art collected by the Museum of Modern Art (1946) and the Guggenheim Museum (1948).
Gottlieb suffered a major stroke in 1970 that left him paralyzed except for his right arm and hand. In 1972 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he continued to paint and to exhibit his art until his death in March of 1974.
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"Untitled" (From the Flight Portfolio)
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Warren, NJ
Adolph Gottilieb (1903-1974), New York, 1969, signed "161/250" and dated 1969 . In good condition Unframed. Measures 24x19
Lithograph
Chrome Green
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 125/150 in pencil by Gottlieb. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp verso. Publ...
Color, Screen
TWO BARS
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Portland, ME
Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974). TWO BARS. Color lithograph, 1969. Edition of 100, Signed and dated, and numbered 11/100, all in pencil. Exhibition label, verso. 29 1/2 x 21. ...
Lithograph
Adolph Gottlieb -- Germination
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) Germination, 1969 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper Hand signed and dated lower left Numbered 25/60 Sheet size 56.5 x 76 cm
Lithograph
Black Field
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on white wove paper, 1972. Signed by the artist dated in pencil lower left. Numbered 67/150 in pencil lower right. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink ...
Screen, Color
Peace, Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Adolph Gottlieb 1970
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original silkscreen by American Abstract Expressionist, Adolph Gottlieb. Artist: Adolph Gottlieb, American (1903 - 1974) Title: Peace from the Peace Portfolio Year: 1970 Medium: ...
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Black Field
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Adolph Gottlieb Black Field 1972 Screenprint 36 x 28 in. Edition of 150 Pencil signed and numbered ABOUT THE WORK In the vertical "Bursts," the series relies...
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Flury
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Compared with his peers, the original Abstract Expressionist posse (Arshile Gorky, Hans Hoffmann, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko) Adolph Gottlieb arguably created the most easily r...
Screen
ORANGE OVAL
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Portland, ME
Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974) ORANGE OVAL, Screenprint in colors, 1972. Edition of 150, printed on wove paper. Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 143/150. Printed by Kelpr...
Screen
Beacon
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 14/100 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York. Catalogue refe...
Color, Lithograph
Flurry
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 74/75 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.
Color, Screen
Adolph Gottlieb, "Untitled" Hand-knotted Wool Rug
By Edward Fields, Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
-Edition 1/3 -Artist’s initials woven on lower left, publisher's mark stenciled on the underside -Excellent condition -Published by Edward Fields, New York
Wool
Signs
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 44/75 in pencil. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.
Color, Screen
Adolph Gottlieb "Black Signs" -Wool Artistic Rug - Publisher Gloria F. Ross
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
-Black Signs by Adolph Gottlieb -54 x 72 in, 137 x 183 cm -Designed in 1967, Rug woven in 1970 -Edition ⅕ -Published by Gloria F. Ross, New York City -Condition: Perfect/Original C...
Wool
Le Soir: Cerf et Herons (The Evening: Stag and Herons)
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Soir: Cerf et Herons (The Evening: Stag and Herons) Lithograph printed with brown tint stone, 1858 From: Animaux et Paysages d’apres Nature Published by Goupil, 1858 Signed in the stone lower left, Karl Bodmer Pinx. et lith. (see photo) Published by Goupil et Cie, Paris, with their blindstamp center, below image Printed by Bertauts, Paris (see photo) Condition: Excellent One stain verso, not visible on recto Full sheet Image size: 11 1/4 x 18 inches Sheet size: 17 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches Reference: Delteil 70 IFF 22, No. 1 Karl Bodmer (1809—1893) Painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Although he spent only two years in the United States and its territories, Bodmer's depictions of Western Indians...
Lithograph
$3,000
H 50 in W 38 in
Gigi: red black abstract print with poetry based on 1950s vintage movie poster
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. This red and black lithograp...
Lithograph
$67,661
H 29.14 in W 23.04 in D 0.04 in
Untitled - Expression no. 2 - Screen Print After Jackson Pollock - 1964
By Jackson Pollock
Located in Roma, IT
JACKSON POLLOCK (American, 1912-1956) Untitled, CR1093 (after painting Number 9, CR340), 1951–printed 1964 Screenprint, on Strathmore wove paper, numbered in pencil lower left, and with the Estate of Jackson Pollock 1964 blindstamp lower left(?) From the second posthumous printing of 50 authorized by his widow, Lee Krasner in 1964 (there was also a lifetime edition of 25) Published by Bernard Steffen...
Screen
$30,000
H 31.07 in W 31 in
Modern Print /// Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Abstract Geometric MoMA Gemini G.E.L.
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) Title: "Modern Print" *Numbered, signed, and dated by Lichtenstein in pencil lower right Year: 1971 Medium: Original Lithograph and Scr...
Lithograph, Screen
$67,661
H 23.04 in W 29.14 in D 0.04 in
Untitled - Expression no. 1 - Screen Print After Jackson Pollock - 1964
By Jackson Pollock
Located in Roma, IT
JACKSON POLLOCK (American, 1912-1956) Untitled, CR1091 (After Painting Number 7, CR324), 1951, printed 1964 Screenprint, on Strathmore wove paper, numbered in pencil lower left, and with the Estate of Jackson Pollock 1964 blindstamp lower left From the second posthumous printing of 50 authorized by his widow, Lee Krasner in 1964 (there was also a lifetime edition of 25) Published by Bernard Steffen...
Screen
Otono Floral (Sexual Spring-like Winter)
By Julian Schnabel
Located in New York, NY
Otono Floral, 1995 Hand-painted, 15-color screenprint with poured resin 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm) Edition of 80 signed in pencil and stamped on verso "Sexual Spring-like Win...
Screen
$3,277
H 24.02 in W 20.48 in D 0.99 in
Henri Matisse Nu Bleu I, Original Lithograph Published 1958
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse, Nu Bleu I Printed by Mourlot Freres for Verve Vol IX Nos 35/36, published by Tériade under the title ‘The Last Works of Henri Matisse’ Presente...
Lithograph
$75,827
H 28.94 in W 22.96 in D 0.04 in
Untitled, CR1095 (after painting Number 22, CR344), 1951, printed 1964
By Jackson Pollock
Located in Roma, IT
JACKSON POLLOCK (American, 1912-1956) Untitled, CR1095 (after painting Number 22, CR344), 1951, printed 1964 Screenprint, on Strathmore wove paper, numbered 49/50 in pencil lower left, and with the Estate of Jackson Pollock 1964 blindstamp lower left From the posthumous printing of 50 authorized by his widow, Lee Krasner, in 1964 (there was also a lifetime edition of 25) Published by Bernard Steffen...
Screen
$704Sale Price|20% Off
H 40 in W 83 in
Dense Rolling Clouds, Blue Sky Landscape Triptych, Handmade Cyanotype on Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of gorgeous rolling clouds. Details: + Title: Dense Rolling Clouds + Year: 2025 + Edition Size: 100 + Stamped and Certifi...
Lithograph, Paper
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Screen
$730
H 40 in W 55.2 in
Duo of Blue Egyptian Palms, Botanical Diptych Cyanotype on Paper, Vintage Modern
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
Exclusive limited edition cyanotype diptych. Details: + Title: Duo of Egyptian Palms + Year: 2024 + Edition Size: 20 + Medium: Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper...
Lithograph, Handmade Paper
$7,000
H 26.5 in W 19.5 in
"Untitled" Richard Serra, Black and White, Sculptural, Simple Abstracted Form
By Richard Serra
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra Untitled, 1990 Signed and dated lower left, stamped Gemini G.E.L. on the reverse Screen-print on PTI Supra paper 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches 430/500 Known for large-scale ...
Paper, Screen
Germination III
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1969 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 57/75 Publisher : Marlborough Graphics, New York 56.50 cm. x 76.50 cm. 22.24 in. x 30.12 in. (paper) 47.00 cm. x 74....
Lithograph
Orange Oval
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on Arches. From the edition of 150. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. The edition numbers have been erased difficult to decipher....
Screen
Green Foreground
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this large color screenprint on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 139/150 in pencil by Gottlieb. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp...
Color, Screen
Crimson Ground
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this vibrant color screenprint on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 140/150 in pencil. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp v...
Color, Screen
Figure Eight
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce screenprint on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 14/75 in ink. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.
Screen
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H 24 in W 20 in
Rose Mood, Abstract Expressionist Sillkscreen by Adolph Gottlieb 1967
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original silkscreen by American Abstract Expressionist, Adolph Gottlieb. It is hand-signed and numbered from the edition of 75. Artist: Adolph Gottlieb Title: Rose Mood Year: ...
Screen
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H 24 in W 17.5 in
Halo, Abstract Expressionist Sillkscreen by Adolph Gottlieb 1966
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original silkscreen by American Abstract Expressionist, Adolph Gottlieb. It is hand-signed and numbered from the edition of 50. Artist: Adolph Gottlieb Title: Halo Year: 1966...
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H 41 in W 36 in
Crimson Ground, Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Adolph Gottlieb 1972
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Adolph Gottlieb, American (1903 - 1974) Title: Crimson Ground Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 78/150 Size: 24 x 19 in. (60.96 x 48.26 cm...
Screen
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H 10 in W 12 in
"James P. Johnson Love, " Adolph Gottlieb, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Music Abstract
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974) James P. Johnson Love, 1949 Watercolor and pencil on paper 10 x 12 inches Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Harold Rosenberg, New York James P. Johnson (1894-1955) was known as the father of "Stride" or "Harlem Stride," a blend of Ragtime and Jazz styles that became popular in the '20's. He composed 16 musicals, over 200 songs, a symphony, a piano concerto, two tone poems, and even an opera, mirroring the achievements of George Gershwin but never receiving the same level of recognition. Johnson's music inspired the likes of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and countless others. He began to earn a living as a pianist by playing cabarets and dance halls until he gained slightly wider recognition and created compositions for black broadway and jazz scores for classical orchestras.In 1949, James P. Johnson was invited by actor and trombonist Conrad Janis to participate in band of what Janis believed to be the Jazz greats - Johnson played piano, along with Henry Goodwin (trumpet), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Pops Foster (bass) and Baby Dodds (drums), with Janis on trombone. In 1948, Conrad Janis' father Sidney Janis opened his gallery befriended artists like Gorky and Duchamp in the 1940's, and showed Adolph Gottlieb. It is possible that Adolph Gottlieb and James P. Johnson became acquainted in the 1940’s through the Janis family. Harold Rosenberg coined the term “action painting” in regards to expressionism, he wrote extensively on the Abstract Expressionist artists during his career as an art critic. In 1949, Rosenberg co-curated an exhibition showcasing these artists with Samuel Kootz that included Gottlieb, de Kooning, Will Baziotes, Gorky, Morris Graves, Hofmann, Motherwell, Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Bradley Walker Tomlin. An expressionist picture in the personal collection of Harold Rosenberg, is the stamp of approval of quality as he is one of the original voices of the abstract movement and held in the highest esteem as a critic. Born in New York City in 1903, Adolph Gottlieb was a founding member of The Ten, a group devoted to abstract art with whom he was active for about five years. He became a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism whose painting style is linked to Marc Rothko...
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Levitation
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Levitation" is arguably the most ambiguous and distinctive print Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) created. It has the essential elements of a classic Gottlieb: richly-colored monochromat...
Screen
Untitled (from the Peace Portfolio I)
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Many of the most high-profile American artists of the 1960's lent their voices and artwork to opposing the Vietnam War. This work, a paradigm of Adolph Gottlieb's signature motifs,...
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Chrome Green
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Chrome Green” is a paradigm of Adolph Gottlieb’s iconic “Burst” series, which commenced in the 1950s and continued on until his death in 1974. This work...
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