“This may sound facetious, but a number of years ago in Provincetown a lady from the Midwest,

“This may sound facetious, but a number of years ago in Provincetown a lady from the Midwest, who was studying with Hofmann, said to me, ‘Mr. Gottlieb, what do you think art will be like five years from now?’ My answer was that if I knew I wouldn’t tell her. I would do it myself.“ 

— Adolph Gottlieb, from an interview with Sister Corita, I.H.M. Published in Jubilee Magazine, December 1964.

Pictured here: Adolph Gottlieb in Provincetown, Massachusetts, ca. 1950s.