Market exuberance surprises even the professionals May 17, 2008
"Cool Blast" of 1960 by Adolph Gottlieb immediately followed, setting the record for the Abstract Expressionist painter at $6. 53 million. (International Herald Tribune)
Freud nude shatters price record May 14, 2008
New records were set for Richard Prince, Tom Wesselmann, Sam Francis, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Robert Indiana and Peter Halley. The spring sales wrap up tomorrow at Sotheby's, which has assembled an even bigger contemporary and postwar sale than Christie's. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Joseph Solman, preeminent painter at crossroads of 20th-century American art Apr 18, 2008
The best-known members of the group, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, later became two of the most famous Abstract Expressionists. The art historian Bram Dijkstra wrote in his book "American Expressionism that Mr. Solman "anticipated - and probably helped inspire - the internal luminescence" of Rothko's '50s canvases.Indeed, there were strong similarities between Mr. Solman and his abstractionist contemporaries. Using figuration for expressive rather than representational ends, he often verged... (Boston Globe)
Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state Feb 3, 2008
There, David said in an e-mail, his parents were part of an art colony that included such names as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb and William Baziotes. In 1958, David said, his parents bought a Victorian house in Newton Center for $13,000. (Boston Globe)
Critics' picks - visual arts Jan 20, 2008
Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Adolph Gottlieb all experimented with printmaking, and the exhibit "Abstract Expressionist Prints" at the Worcester Art Museum is a treasure trove of such work. The prints are smaller than the large-scale paintings we're used to from Abstract Expressionists. (Boston Globe)
Color as field Dec 29, 2007
He did not include Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman as Wilkin does in this exhibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts. The exhibition features more than 40 expansive canvases. (Durango Herald)
Life, ripe and robust: Exhibits sift and savor it Jul 31, 2006
Placing the 1947 painting Altar by Adolph Gottlieb in a room with the very contemporary, very glowing crimson installation by Edouard Duval Carri;, The Apotheosis of Erzulie Dantor, looks like a mistake. Yes, both works are thematically connected. (Miami.com, FL -- Entertainment)
America's vision of Klee (Deborah K. Dietsch) Jun 17, 2006
Some of the pieces in the exhibit presage later abstractions by artists Joan Miro, Alexander Calder and Adolph Gottlieb. As art critic Clement Greenberg noted of postwar American modernists, "Almost everybody, whether conscious of it nor not, was learning from Klee." Enthusiasm for Klee's idiosyncratic work on the part of so many different American artists and collectors no doubt was attributable to his freedom and fluency of expression. (Washington Times)
Nevelson: Not new, yet still novel Jan 7, 2006
The mysterious result can bring to mind an aerial view of a city, an architect's model, a pictographic painting by Adolph Gottlieb (another contemporary of Nevelson's), or a magical world within a printer's case box. The show's collages reveal Nevelson indulging her wit and love of vintage fabric in pieces that incorporate sections of a worn quilt, bits of mirror and yarn, to more formal, totemic arrangements of strips of wood veneer. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
