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• Adolph Gottlieb  - 2 -
  1950 Solo show, Kootz Gallery; also 1953.
Included, "American Painting Today," Florida Gulf Coast Art Center.
"American Painting 1950," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
"American Painting," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
  
  1951 After 1951 numerous paintings for synagogues in Millburn, Springfield and New York.
Purchase Prize, "Contemporary American Painting," University of Illinois.
Included, "Seventeen Modern American Painters," Frank Peris Gallery, Beverly Hills, California.
"American Vanguard Art for Paris," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York and Galerie de France, Paris.
  
  1952 Included, "Painters of Expressionist Abstractions," Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.
"International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, also 1953, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1967.
"International Art Exhibition," Tokyo, also 1955.
  
  1953 Solo show, 'Area Arts', San Francisco.
Included, "Origins and Trends in Contemporary Art," Denver Art Museum, Arts Club of Chicago, Walker Art Center.
Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., also 1967.
  
  1954 Solo shows: Bennington College, Vermont, and Williams College, Massachusetts.
First Prize, "Annual Exhibition of Brooklyn Society of
Artists," Brooklyn Museum.
Solo show, Wakefield Gallery, New York.
Included, "Abstract and Surrealist Art in America," Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, selected by Sidney Janis. Participants include William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko
  
  1954 First Prize, "Annual Exhibition of Brooklyn Society of
Artists," Brooklyn Museum.
Solo show, Wakefield Gallery, New York.
Included, "Abstract and Surrealist Art in America," Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, selected by Sidney Janis. Participants include William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko
  
  1955-56 Included, "The New Decade - 35 American Painters and Sculptors," Whitney Museum of American Art; circulated nationally.
  
  1957 From 1957 reduced his pictorial language to a few minimal elements such as orbs and blotches hovering in suspended tension.
Solo shows: Jewish Museum, New York, and Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Included, "Paintings from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York," shown at the Hague, Helsinki, Cologne, Paris.
Included, "American Paintings, 1945-1947," Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
  
  1958 Solo show, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; also 1959.
Included, "Nature in Abstraction," Whitney Museum of American Art.
"Action Painting ... 1958," Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art.
  
  1958-59 Included, "The New American Painting," organized and circulated by International Council, Museum of Modern Art, to Switzerland, Italy, Spain, West Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, England, and, finally Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  
  1959 Solo shows: Galerie Rive Droit, Paris;
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Participated in documenta 2 in Kassel.
  
  1960 Solo shows: Galerie Handschin, Basel, also 1961;
French & Company, New York.
  
  1961 Third Prize, "International Exhibition," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
Solo show, Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan.
Included, "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  
  1962 Included, "Art Since 1950," Seattle World's Fair;
also shown Brandeis University and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
  
  1963 Included, "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art.
Awarded Grand Premio, VII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Included, "American Section of the VII Bienal de Sao
Paulo," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
  
  1964 Solo show, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York; also 1966.
  
  1965 Included, "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art.
  
  1967 Included, "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art.
Solo show, Arts Club of Chicago.
Included, "Contemporary Americans," Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada.
  
  1968 Retrospective, organized by Whitney Museum of American Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, shown at both and also Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., and Brandeis University.
  
  1970 Solo show, Marlborough-Gerson Galleria d'Arte, Rome.
  
  1971-72 Solo shows: Marlborough Galleries in London and Zurich.
  
  1974 Member of the New York Art Commission.
Dies New York City.
  
  1975 "Memorial Exhibition: Adolph Gottlieb," American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.  
  1977 Solo show, Emmerich Gallery, New York; also 1978.
  
  1977-78 Solo show, circulated to six museums in Canada.
  
  1979-80 Solo show, circulated to three museums in the United States.
  
  1981 Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  1982 Solo show, Knoedler & Company, New York.
  
  1986-88 Solo show, works on paper, organized by the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and circulated in the United States by American Federation of Arts.
  
  1987 Included, "Abstract Expressionism: the Critical Developments," Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo.
  
 
Gottlieb's condensed pictorial language aligns him with Abstract Expressionists such as Marc Rothko and Franz Kline.

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image: adolph gottlieb - rolling

'rolling', 1961, oil on canvas
183 x 229 cm (72 x 90 ")

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