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Adolph Gottlieb
American Abstract Expressionist Painter
(1903-1974)

American painter important as an early and outstanding member of the New York school of Abstract Expressionists.

Early in the 1940s Gottlieb developed his pictograph style, in which cryptic forms, often derived from mythology and primitive art, were used in a rectilinear, gridlike pattern.

During the 1950s he painted abstract landscapes, which, in turn, led to his second principal style, called “bursts,” in which sunlike, static orb forms float above jagged areas. The lower element was often made up of smears, blots, and other forms characteristic of Action painting. The paintings became simpler and more monumental and used a limited number of colors.

Offset lithograph printed in 1975 by the New York Graphic Society.

27.5" x 33"

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