Duet
Modern and Contemporary Art

Duet
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Adolph Gottlieb
American, 1903–1974
American, 1903–1974
Date
1962
Medium
Oil on canvas
Accession #
63.2
Dimensions
84 x 90 inches
Location
On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 301
Description
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.
Credit
Gift of Nelson A. RockefellerImage Copyright
© Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York