A Photo Essay: Adolph Gottlieb and His Studios

 

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  1. Adolph Gottlieb in his home studio in Brooklyn with paintings including Reflection (1941) and Pictograph (1942), 1942. Photo by Aaron Siskind.

  2. Adolph Gottlieb in his Provincetown, MA studio, summer 1952. Photo by Maurice Berezov.

  3. Adolph Gottlieb in his studio at 206 W 23rd St. painting Ascent (1958), 1958. Photo by Rudolph Burckhardt.

  4. Adolph Gottlieb in his 23rd St. studio, 1960. Photo by Guy Weill.

  5. Adolph Gottlieb painting in his 23rd St. studio. Saturnalia and Duo in the background (both 1962), February 1962. Photo by Fred McDarrah

  6. Interior of East Hampton studio with the painting Orb (1964), 1964. Photo by John F. Waggaman.

  7. Wide view of paintings in studio at 940 Broadway, December 1965. Shown here: Scatter (1965), Blue and Green on Blue Black (1965),  Untitled (1965), Icon (1964), Deep Over Pale (1964), Untitled (1965), and two unidentified paintings. Photo by Ruth Bowman

  8. Adolph Gottlieb in his studio at 190 Bowery, 1968. Photo by Michael Fredericks.

  9. Adolph Gottlieb in his 190 Bowery studio with sculptures Petaloid with Hexagon (on floor) and Tilted Wall (on table),  and paintings Open (all 1968) and Solitary (1969), c.1969

  10. East Hampton studio with Petaloid (1968) in front, summer 1971. Photo by Hermann Neumann.

  11. Adolph Gottlieb in his East Hampton studio with Roman III #3, Russet,  Amorphous, Burst 1973, and Festival (all 1973), summer 1973. photographer unknown.

  12. Adolph Gottlieb working in his West Broadway studio in front of Max-Minimal (1973), 1974. Photo by Arnold Newman for an article in Horizon Magazine.

"In the beginning, nobody really had a studio. You used part of an apartment selecting the largest room with the best light, and that became the studio.”

– Esther Gottlieb, Interviewed by Phyllis Tuchman, 1981.

Over the years, Adolph Gottlieb had the opportunity to work in many different studios. The last studio pictured above was Adolph Gottlieb's final workspace, at West Broadway, in SoHo. A few years later, that studio would find a new purpose as the home of the Gottlieb Foundation, which remains the Foundation's base of operations to this day.