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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)
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
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)
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)
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, N. Y.). James S. and Dorothy Schramm; Des Moines Art Center [gift from previous, 1961]
