Artist Monograph

Adolph Gottlieb, American

American, 1903–1974

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Oil Painting	9	39.1%
Etching	6	26.1%
Screenprint	4	17.4%
Other Media	2	8.7%
Lithography	1	4.3%
Gouache	1	4.3%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	14	60.9%
Painting & Sculpture	9	39.1%

Production by Decade

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Classification Types

Print — 13
Painting — 9
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	7	30.4%
Medium (30–100 cm)	8	34.8%
Large (1–3 m)	7	30.4%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	4.3%

Range: 15.2 cm → 470.5 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1946	1
1958	1
1960	1
1961	1
1966	3
1969	1
1970	3
1977	1
1981	1
1984	2
1989	1
1994	1
1996	1
2002	4
2003	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 23 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled (Etching # B) Print Acc. 52.1984	c. 1942	Etching	Plate (irreg.): 7 7/16 x 6 7/8" (18.9 x 17.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 8 1/4 x 7 13/16" (21 x 19.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Untitled (Etching # B) Print Acc. 154.1981	c. 1942	Etching	plate (irreg.): 7 7/16 x 6 7/8" (18.9 x 17.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 11 5/8 x 9 1/4" (29.6 x 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Untitled Print Acc. 60.2002	c. 1943	Drypoint	Plate: 6 x 3 15/16" (15.2 x 10 cm) Sheet: 9 3/4 x 6 1/8" (24.8 x 15.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund
Head Print Acc. 59.2002	c. 1944	Linoleum cut	plate: 7 7/16 x 6" (18.9 x 15.3 cm); sheet: 13 1/16 x 10 1/16" (33.2 x 25.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund
Montage Print Acc. 58.2002	c. 1944	Etching and aquatint	plate: 6 x 7 3/4" (15.3 x 19.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 7 11/16 x 11" (19.5 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund
Apparition Print Acc. 456.1988	1945	Etching and aquatint	plate: 20 1/8 x 15 1/4" (51.1 x 38.7 cm); sheet: 22 1/2 x 17 13/16" (57 x 45.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Associates Fund
Pictograph Print Acc. 150.1994	c. 1945	Etching and aquatint	plate: 7 15/16 x 9 15/16" (20.1 x 25.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 9 7/16 x 12 5/16" (24 x 31.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Untitled (E # E) Print Acc. 61.2002	c. 1945	Etching	plate: 9 13/16 x 7 15/16" (24.9 x 20.1 cm); sheet: 11 5/8 x 10" (29.5 x 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund
Voyager's Return Painting Acc. 175.1946	1946	Oil and tempera on canvas	37 7/8 x 29 7/8" (96.2 x 75.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger
Ashes of Phoenix Drawing Acc. 80.1996	1948	Gouache and incising on paper	18 x 23 3/4" (45.8 x 60.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchased with funds given by Leon D. Black
Man Looking at Woman Painting Acc. 1088.1969	1949	Oil on canvas	42 x 54" (106.6 x 137.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the artist
Tournament Painting Acc. 532.1984	1951	Oil on canvas	60 1/8" x 6' 1/8" (152.6 x 183 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Esther Gottlieb
Flotsam at Noon Painting Acc. 378.1961	1952	Oil on canvas	36 1/8 x 48" (91.7 x 121.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Samuel A. Berger
Unstill Life, III Painting Acc. 415.1960	1954-56	Oil on canvas	6' 8" x 15' 5 1/4" (203 x 470.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Given anonymously
Composition Painting Acc. 1086.1969	1955	Oil on canvas	6' 1/8" x 60 1/8" (183.3 x 152.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the artist
Descending Arrow Painting Acc. 1087.1969	1956	Oil on canvas	8' x 6' (243.5 x 182.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the artist
Blast, I Painting Acc. 6.1958	1957	Oil on canvas	7' 6" x 45 1/8" (228.7 x 114.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Philip Johnson Fund
Above and Below, I Painting Acc. 1085.1969	1964-65	Oil on canvas	7' 6" x 9' (220.5 x 274.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the artist
Black Ground, Red Disc Print Acc. 643.1966	1966	Screenprint	composition and sheet: 28 1/4 x 19 15/16" (71.8 x 50.7cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Marlborough-Gerson Gallery
Chrome Yellow, Green Disc Print Acc. 644.1966	1966	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 29 7/8 x 22 1/16" (75.9 x 56cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Marlborough-Gerson Gallery
Green Ground, Blue Disc Print Acc. 642.1966	1966	Screenprint	composition and sheet: 23 15/16 x 18" (60.8 x 45.7cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Untitled from Flight Print Acc. 367.2003.5	1969, published 1971	Lithograph from a portfolio of eleven lithographs and one screenprint	composition: 24 13/16 × 19 1/16" (63.1 × 48.4 cm); sheet: 25 11/16 × 20 1/16" (65.2 × 51 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine Farley
Untitled from Prints for Phoenix House Print Acc. 415.1977.5	1972	Aquatint from a portfolio of three lithographs, two photogravures, two screenprints with stencil and varnish additions, one aquatint, one etching and aquatint, and one screenprint	plate: 23 3/4 x 17 7/8" (60.3 x 45.4cm); sheet: 31 7/8 x 24" (81 x 61cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Brooke and Carolyn Alexander