Adolph Gotlieb, Untitled Lithograph
Adolph Gottlieb
"Black Field"


Serigraph
1972
36 x 27 1/2 inches

Donated by
Martin S. Ackerman Foundation

Accession Number:  80-007

(c)UM Museum of Fine Arts file photograph
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Adolph Gottlieb was born in New York  on 14 March 1903 and Died in Easthampton, New York on 4 March 1974.  He was a member of the New York School and studied under Robert Henri and John Sloan in 1920-21.  He traveled to Europe and studied  at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere in Paris.  He supported himself during the 1930's by teaching and his first one person exhibition was in 1930.

Along with Mark Rothko, Lee Gatch, William Baziotes and Ilya Bolotowsky, Gottleib founded the 'TEN' in 1935 and exhibited with them until 1940.  After that time he began experimenting with what he referred to as "an evocative art rooted in the subconscious" which evolved into an object field relationship of space.

This print was a later evolution of his "burst" series, circa 1956-1960.  Here he describes a field relationship with economy and sensation.