#gottlieb foundation
The Adolph and Esther #GottliebFoundation has been awarding grants to mature, creative visual artists since 1976. These awards are intended to recognize the talents of many individuals around the world who have dedicated long careers to making art and hopes to alleviate some of the financial burden on those artists so they can devote more of their time and energies to their creative endeavors.
Each one of the 12 artists whose names and work appear below was awarded a cash grant of $25,000 this year. These individuals were selected from a group of 409 applications by a panel of 5 advisors who are themselves professionals and who have no affiliation with the Gottlieb Foundation.
The recipients of the 2018 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant are:
Aaron Brown
Tomasz Domanski
Teo Gonzalez
Ira Joel Haber
Sheila Held
Ellen Koment
Greg Kwiatek
Thomas Leaver
Richard Nocera
Lorna Ritz
Arlene Santana
David Taborn
Images of works by and biographies for this year’s grant recipients will be highlighted in our forthcoming newsletters as part of our Grant Recipient Spotlight feature. Recipient works can also be reviewed in the Grant Recipient gallery.
Complete information about our grant programs and applications for each one is available here.
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Adolph Gottlieb
Petaloid
1968. 96 x 96 x 48”.
Painted steel.
©Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Photo by Jerry L. Thompson
Petaloid is one of only three large-scale sculptures ever created by #AdolphGottlieb. This work is on view at @stormkingartcenter as part of their permanent collection.
Starting today, Storm King opens with extended summer hours, and will be open until 8pm EST on Fridays and Saturdays until September 1st.
For more information, visit Storm King’s website.
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At left:
Adolph Gottlieb
Pictograph
1946
36 x 48”
Oil on canvas
CLOSING SOON: “From Motherwell to Hofmann: The Samuel Kootz Gallery,” is on view now at the @neubergermuseum at Purchase College, State University of New York in Purchase, New York.
The exhibition closes May 18th, 2018.
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The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation blog is now online, and features information on works by the artist, news, exhibition information, and features from our archive.
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Adolph Gottlieb, “Untitled”. 1973. Monotype in oil on paper. 26x18"
“The search for variations, however, is really the search for the best proof of the original idea, and when I find it, there is the evidence.” — Adolph Gottlieb
This is the last week to see “A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb,” on view now at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. The exhibition will finish its national five-venue tour when it closes on April 29th.
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Happy birthday to Esther Gottlieb, co-founder and first President of the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Esther Gottlieb! Born April 15th, 1907 in Danbury, Connecticut.
Happy birthday to Esther Gottlieb, co-founder and first President of the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Esther Gottlieb! Born April 15th, 1907 in Danbury, Connecticut.
Adolph and Esther were a team in many of their lives’ endeavors. At different times Esther helped in the studio, was the self-taught registrar of Adolph’s art, and organized dinner gatherings at their home for their many friends in the art world such as Barnett and Annalee Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, Milton and Sally Avery. Esther even learned to work a sailboat when Adolph became involved in racing them.
During the Great Depression, the salary from Esther’s full-time job salary was often loaned or given to several friends in times of need through Adolph. This generosity on the part of both Adolph and Esther was the seed of what later became the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
After Adolph’s death, Esther guided the formation of the Foundation. For twelve years, from the time of its incorporation until her passing in 1988, Esther Gottlieb served as President of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, leaving a legacy of assisting artists for decades to come.
Learn more about the grant programs Esther Gottlieb helped to establish.
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A PLAYLIST FOR GOTTLIEB
The Phillips Collection asked staff to create a playlist in response individual artwork, including “Labyrinth #1,” (1950) that are currently exhibited in “Ten Americans After Paul Klee."
Inspired by this, the Gottlieb Foundation has created an additional playlist for this work. "Although Gottlieb didn’t have any music in his studio,” says Executive Director Sanford Hirsch, “he did have a good collection of records at home. Using those as a starting point, here are a few selections from around the same time as Labyrinth was painted, and from musicians Gottlieb listened to."
Listen to the playlist now on the Phillips Collection’s website.
“Ten Americans After Paul Klee” is now on view at the Phillips Collection through May 6th, 2018.
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On January 26th, “A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb“ opens at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and will be on view through April 29th.
The exhibition features 40 of the 54 monotypes that Gottlieb created between the summer of 1973 and February 1974.
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The deadline for the 2018 Individual Support Grant is due this Friday, December 15th.
Online applications must be completed and submitted by 11:59 pm EST on December 15th and all mailed in tax forms must also be postmarked and sent by this date. For more information about this program, visit our website.
Pictured above:
Esther and Adolph Gottlieb in East Hampton
ca. 1960
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“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.
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From the archive: A reproduction of the original invitation for the solo exhibition “Adolph Gottlieb” at Howard Putzel’s Gallery 67 In 1945 (top), featuring an introduction by Jon Stroup, which reads:
“The hieroglyphic arrangement of Adolph Gottlieb’s images so ostensibly invites intellectual interpretation that it seems pertinent to issue the following warning: although the intellect plays an important part in the aesthetic appreciation of the pictograph, it will seriously mislead the spectator if relied on exclusively; the symbolism is too personal. The assimilation of the images is more than a process of addition, and their whole content is experienced only when it has penetrated the subconscious. Insofar as one can speak of a final analysis the pictograph is mysterious, enigmatic, profoundly so when most fully experienced."
Image below: Nocturne 1945, oil on canvas, 26 x 34” (checklist #25).
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2017 Individual Support Grant recipient spotlight:
Tracey Brockett
Last Gambit of the Dark Queen
2016
Acrylic marker and oil stick on paper
50 x 60"
Tracey Brockett was born in Toronto, Canada, and was educated there and in the US. Brockett allows the unconscious to direct the beginning of a painting, before imposing a more considered approach. She currently lives and works in rural New England.
Interested in our grant programs for mature artists? Visit our website.
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On this day in 1960, a one-man show of Adolph Gottlieb’s works opens at Galerie Neufville in Paris, featuring 11 of his paintings.
Pictured here, from left to right: “Prismatic,” (1959), “Halo,” (1959), “Rising,” (1958), “Antipodes,” (1959), “Crescendo,” (1960).
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On November 3rd, the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will be holding a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition “Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery”.
Speakers will include Sanford Hirsch, Executive Director of the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, who will be speaking about the relationship between Adolph Gottlieb and Sam Kootz.
For more information and a complete list of speakers, click here.
Shown here: A reproduction of the invitation to the exhibition, “Adolph Gottlieb: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings” at Kootz Gallery in 1954.
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2017 GRANT RECIPIENT SPOTLIGHT:
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant supports painters, printmakers, and sculptors who have been working in a mature phase of their art for at least 20 years. The application form for the 2018 Individual Support Grant is now open. The deadline for submitted applications is December 15th, 2017.
Barbara
In Love with Life
2017
Acrylic collage and threads on canvas
39 x 39”
“Barbara Demšar was born in Kranj, Slovenia. She has participated in over 200 group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. She has received 21 awards for her work in Slovenia, Croatia and US. Her work is marked by abstract landscapes, imbued with optimism, and a childlike playfulness and vividness. She currently lives and works in Škofja Loka, Slovenia.”
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In a 1963 letter to Martin Friedman, Samuel Kootz discusses Adolph Gottlieb’s painting “Frozen Sounds,” (1951) which was exhibited at Kootz Gallery in 1952. The work is now on view as part of the exhibition “Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966” at the Fralin Museum of Art in Virginia.
From the letter:
“When Gottlieb made the first picture that was his exit from the pictograph–the painting called ‘Frozen Sounds’– I purchased the picture for my own collection (and made a gift of it to the Whitney Museum several years ago.) I was so impressed with 'Frozen Sounds’ that I gave it back to Gottlieb, and suggested to him that he build an entire show around this theme. Out of it came the Imaginary Landscapes, one of the best shows that Gottlieb has ever done, and out of which came his present 'Blast’ paintings. In these, you immediately see Gottlieb’s new feeling for color and his freedom in the use of it, thus at last bearing out my feeling that it was inevitable."
"Frozen Sounds”
1951
Oil on canvas
36 x 48"
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Adolph Gottlieb
Untitled
1973
Monotype in ink on paper
16 x 12”
“A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb” opens October 6th at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama. @mobilemuseumofart
Click here for more information.
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The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Newsletter
The Foundation is pleased to announce our newsletter. View the September 2017 edition and subscribe to the newsletter here.
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Opening today:
The exhibition “10 Americans After Paul Klee” at Zentrum Paul Klee.
Pictured:
Adolph Gottlieb
“The Seer”
1950
60 x 72"
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Adolph Gottlieb
Nocturnal Beams
1954
Oil on canvas
47 x 59”
On view at the The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia as a part of “Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966,” from 8/25 – 12/17/2017.
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“Sombre”
1970
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48”
On view from August 26th, 2017 through November 5th, 2017 as a part of the exhibition “LIFE: In Search of a Paradise,” at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design in Toyama, Japan.
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From the archive: invitation for a 1935 group exhibition at Secession Gallery in New York, which included a work of Gottlieb’s titled “Landscape” (c. 1934).
For a look at more documents from our archives, visit our website.
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Individual Support Grant Recipient Spotlight:
Greg Bray
Black with 2 sugars
2017
Paper collage on paper
24 x 36”
“Greg Bray works within a framework of linked consciousness pushing up against boundaries. Whether it’s the collective discomfort of race or the circuitous route of institutional power structures, connecting concerns of observed condition within interpretations of relative truths stemming from cultural collisions in it’s increasing interconnectivity. Challenging how we change as we confront change. His early art form grew out of the inherently and overtly political Black Arts Movement.”
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Watch Sanford Hirsch, Executive Director of the Gottlieb Foundation, read from the archive Gottlieb’s speech titled “Unintelligibility,“ at the Dedalus Foundation’s "1,000 Words: Readings from Independent Artists’ Archives."
The speech was originally delivered at the Museum of Modern Art in 1948 as a part of the forum, “The Modern Artist Speaks.”
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2017 Grant Recipient Spotlight: Judith Braun
Judith Braun, a.k.a. Weinman, or Weinperson, began as a realistic figurative painter in the 1980’s, and has periodically reinvented her art practice and persona. In the 1990’s, as Weinperson, she produced enlarged Xerox works, and was included in the “Bad Girls” show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (@newmuseum).
Now, as Braun, she makes intricate abstract drawings, both small graphite on paper and large charcoal fingerprinted walls. The latter are site-specific ephemeral installations that have been subject of solo and group exhibitions in New York City, and throughout the US and Europe. They are sometimes executed live, for the public. She is featured in the recent documentary, “More Art Upstairs.” Braun was born in Albany, New York in 1947, and has lived and worked on the Lower East Side in New York City for many years.
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