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Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903–74, American painter, b. New York City. Gottlieb studied under John Sloan and Robert Henri. In the 1940s he created pictographs which were stylized, primitive symbols set in a gridlike pattern. His abstract dynamic canvases of the following decade (e.g., Frozen Sounds, Number One, 1951; Whitney Mus., New York City) placed him in the front ranks of abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
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Gottlieb, Adolph (1903–74) painter; born in New York City. He studied at the Art Students League with Robert Henri (1919–21) and John Sloan (1923–24) and was a co-founder of the New York City based avant-garde group, The Ten (1935–40). By 1941 he was painting compartmentalized canvases containing symbolic animal and plant forms, called pictographs, as seen in Dream (1948). His later work favored cosmic bursts of color, as in Chrome (1965).