In 1969, the year after his solo exhibition that filled the Guggenheim and the Whitney Museums, Gottlieb completed a collection of Imaginary Landscape paintings. We wanted to take a closer look at some of the paintings created during that year.

To offer a better sense of how he approached this project and what he learned in the process, we sent National Gallery conservator Robert Price some questions about his experience…

The recent installation of Adolph Gottlieb’s sculpture WALL in The National Gallery on Washington DC gives us a chance to explore how the artist developed this sculpture, what was involved in its conservation, and its current installation. In this first part of a two-part newsletter, learn about how WALL was created.

On February 14th, 1968, a major exhibition of Adolph Gottlieb's paintings organized jointly by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens at both museums in New York City simultaneously – the first and only time this has occurred. Below are some different ideas Gottlieb considered for a poster for the exhibition…

On October 28th, the Artists' Fellowship, Inc. honored the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation by presenting the Gari Melchers award for over forty years of service and assistance to the artist community…

“In 1960 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb purchased a home in East Hampton, NY, adjacent to a potato field and about 100 yards from the Atlantic Ocean”

“I brought the postcards—I thought he might enjoy looking at them, so he said, “Oh, that’s fine.” He looked at them and said, “I think I’ll do some painting.” I went to the market, and when I came back he had these postcards tacked up all over the studio.”

Many summers for Adolph and Esther Gottlieb were spent by the water, going sailing or lounging at the beach…