Pictograph
<p>In 1941 Adolph Gottlieb began a series of paintings, prints, and drawings that he called <em>Pictographs</em>. These represent the artist’s first efforts at reconciling elements of abstraction with an exploration of the unconscious drawn from Surrealism. His aim was to create a new, uniquely American expression that would bring significant content to abstraction. The ideas Gottlieb explored in his <em>Pictographs</em> were so varied and complex that the series occupied him for more than 10 years. This print was created in the course of Gottlieb’s intensive exploration of the theme.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1944
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.2 × 25.1 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.); sheet: 23.9 × 27.7 cm (9 7/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Adolph Gottlieb
Artist
Painting
Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a printmaker.
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1971 · Screenprint on paper
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1971 · Color aquatint on paper
Untitled from Flight
1969 · Lithograph from a portfolio of eleven lithographs and one screenprint
Jetsam
1967 · Color screenprint on cream wove paper
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- Adolph Gottlieb
- Year
- 1944
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.2 × 25.1 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.); sheet: 23.9 × 27.7 cm (9 7/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1944-142939
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified