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"Night Scene", oil, 17x14 by Adolph Gottlieb represents the first work in the Des Moines Art Center by this important member of the New York school.

Relying not on natural forms and the visual image, Gottlieb's point of departure is the paint itself with forms developing as a part of the process of painting.  Source: Bulletin, January 1962.


Exhibition History"The Abstract Tradition in American Art," Des Moines Art Center, Dec. 7, 1991 - Feb. 23, 1992

"About New York: Night and Day," Gallery of Modern Art, N. Y., 1965

Grinnell College, May 17 - June 3, 1962

"Art of the Twentieth Century Collected by James S. and Dorothy Schramm," Amherst College, 1961 (traveled to: Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 6 - Feb. 4, 1962)

"Fourteenth Annual Fine Arts Festival: Contemporary Art in Iowa," School of Fine Arts State University of Iowa, June 15 - August 1, 1952
Published ReferencesDES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.74 & 75, b/w ill. p.75

Marilyn Jackson, "Living Art," THE IOWAN, Aug. - Sept. 1961, color photograph including other works in the Schramm collection displayed outdoors

DMAC Bulletin, Jan. 1962

"Art of the Twentieth Century Collected by James S. and Dorothy Schramm," Amherst College, 1961, exh. cat. ref. p.7
DimensionsFrame: 19 5/8 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (49.8 × 40 × 3.8 cm)
Board: 17 7/8 × 14 in. (45.4 × 35.6 cm)
Accession Number 1961.48
Classificationspainting
CopyrightARS
SignedA. Gottlieb (u,l oil paint) Adolph Gottlieb (verso, u,c)
Inscriptions18 x 14 1947 (verso, c,l)
ProvenanceArtist; (Kootz Gallery, New York). James S. and Dorothy Schramm [acquired by 1952]; Des Moines Art Center [gift from previous, 1961]
Night Scene
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Adolph Gottlieb
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Adolph Gottlieb
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Amanda De Leon
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Robert Motherwell
1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Estes
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Philip Campbell Curtis
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Grant Wood
ca. 1920
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Amanda De Leon
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
E.J. Stawski
ca. 1953
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ray Ruehl
ca. 1954