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Object Details

Artist

Adolph Gottlieb, American, b. New York City, 1903–1974

Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1960
Philippe Dotremont, Brussels, to 31 January 1964 (through Larry Rubin, Galerie Lawrence, Paris)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 31 January 1964-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966

Exhibition History

SIDNEY JANIS GALLERY, New York. Adolph Gottlieb,7 November- 3 December 1960.

Published References

CREHAN, HUBERT. "Reviews and Previews: Adolph Gottlieb," Art News 59 (December 1960), p. 12, ill.
SEUPHOR, MICHEL. Abstract Painting: Fifty Years of Accomplishment from Kandinsky to the Present (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1961), p. 235, colorpl 419.
HIRSCH, SANFORD and JAMES LAWRENCE. Adolph Gottlieb: A Powerful Will to Art (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2025), colorpl. 133, p. 191.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Art © Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Date

1960

Accession Number

66.2162

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

90 1/4 x 71 7/8 in. (209.1 x 182.7 cm)

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School

Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2fe33a9e7-5814-4105-a5e4-962093c2ab25

Record ID

hmsg_66.2162

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