Duet
Adolph Gottlieb
American, 1903–1974

Details
Title
Duet
Artist/Maker
Adolph Gottlieb (American, 1903–1974)
Date
1962
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
84 x 90 inches
Credit
Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller
Accession #
63.2
Adolph Gottlieb’s series of “imaginary landscapes” and “bursts,” such as Duet, presents the duality of an earthbound realm and a transcendent cosmological one. Gottlieb, like his fellow Abstract Expressionists, constantly sought inspiration from the subconscious and “the simple expression of the complex thought.” Gottlieb’s art increasingly became painting about painting—a meditation on the process of applying liquid pigment to canvas.
Image Copyright
© Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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