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Classic Paintings (Exhibition Catalogue) ADOLPH GOTTLIEB SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES 2019 Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings (exhibition catalogue). Text by Kent Mitchell Minturn. New York: Pace Gallery, 2019. Hannelore B. and Rudolph R. Schulhof Collection (exhibition catalogue). Text by Gražina Subelytė. Venice, Italy: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2019. 2017 Farrell, Jennifer. The History and Legacy of Samuel M. Kootz and the Kootz Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Charlottesville, Virginia: The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, 2017. Visionaries: Creating the Modern Guggenheim (exhibition catalogue). New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2017: 240, 241, illustrated. 2016 Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism (exhibition catalogue). London, England: Royal Academy of Arts, 2016. Agee, William C. Modern Art in America. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: 261, illustrated. Adolph Gottlieb: Selected Bibliography—Books 2 Pasti, Carolina. A Life with Artists: Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof. Texts by Richard Armstrong, Tom Freudenheim, Carol Goldberg, Suzanne Landau et al. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publication, 2016: 67, illustrated. 2015 Miller, Dana, ed. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. Text by Adam D. Weinberg. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015: 152, illustrated. 2014 A Family Affair: Modern and Contemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Texts by Gwen Allen, David Cateforis and Evelyn C. Hankins, etc. Stanford, California; New York: The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, 2014: 100, illustrated. When Modern Was Contemporary: The Roy R. Neuberger Collection. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, 2014: 111–3, illustrated. 2013 Blanton Museum of Art: 110 Favorites from the Collection. Austin, Texas: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, 2013: 53, illustrated. Delong, Lea Rosson, ed. Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2013: 278, 279, illustrated. 2012 Adolph Gottlieb: Gravity, Suspension, Motion—Paintings 1954–1972 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Pepe Karmel. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2012. Decade: Contemporary Collection 2002–2012 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti. Buffalo, New York: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: 318, illustrated. Adolph Gottlieb: Selected Bibliography—Books 3 Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950 (exhibition catalogue). Columbia, South Carolina: Columbia Museum of Art, 2012: 99, no. 29, illustrated. 2011 Agee, William C., Irving Sandler and Karen Wilkin. American Vanguard: Graham, David, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942 (exhibition catalogue). Andover, Massachusetts: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2011: illustrated. Allen Memorial Art Museum: Highlights from the Collection. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 2011: 92, illustrated. Dreishpoon, Douglas. The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Text by Holly E. Hughes, Mariann W. Smith and Susana Tejada. Milan: Skira editore spa, 2011: illustrated. Holzwarth, Hans Werner and Laszlo Taschen, eds. Modern Art: 1870–2000, Impressionism to Today. Cologne: Taschen, 2011: 429, illustrated. Hübner, Kirstin and Otto, eds. 25 Years 1986–2011. Munich: American Contemporary Art Gallery, 2011: 10– 13, illustrated. The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer’s Adventures in Art. Chicago: Beatrice Cummings Mayer, 2011: 73, illustrated. Rylands, Philip, ed. Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection. Texts by Nicholas Fox Weber and Lisa Jacobs. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2011: 87, illustrated. 2010 Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Ann Temkin. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010: illustrated. Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Luca Massimo Barbero and Pepe Karmel. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2010. Adolph Gottlieb: Selected Bibliography—Books 4 50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated. Kamien, Kazhden, Adina, ed. Modernism in Dialogue: 20th-Century Painting and Sculpture in the Israel Museum. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2010: illustrated. Le grand geste! Informel und Abstrakter Expressionismus 1946–1964 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Kay Heymer, Susanne Rennert and Beat Wismer. Cologne: DuMont, 2010: 91–93, 330, illustrated. Masters of the Gesture (exhibition catalogue). Text by David Anfam. Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2010: illustrated. Masterworks from the Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, Ohio: Butler Institute of American Art, 2010: 167, illustrated. Monet y La Abstraccion (exhibition catalogue). Text by Paloma Alarcó. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010: illustrated. O’Hare, Mary Kate. Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s (exhibition catalogue). Newark: Newark Museum, 2010: illustrated. 2009 Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art, 2009: 238–239, illustrated. Kennedy, Brian P. and Emily Schubert Burke, eds. Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009: 24, illustrated. Marzio, Peter C. Director’s Choice: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine of Arts, Houston. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009: 142, illustrated. Adolph Gottlieb: Selected Bibliography—Books 5 Rush, Michael. The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis. New York: Abrams, 2009: illustrated. 2008 Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings and Early Prints (exhibition brochure). Text by Sanford Hirsch. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art, 2008. Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings from Four Decades (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lilly Wei. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2008. Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptures (exhibition catalogue). Nice: Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art, 2008: 70, illustrated. Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art, 2009. INTERSECTIONS: The Grand Concourse at 100 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Fordham University Press, 2009: illustrated. Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2008: 30–31, illustrated. Karmel, Pepe, ed. New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lynn Gumpert, Pepe Karmel, Alexandra Lange, and Lytle Shaw. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008: 122–123, illustrated. Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed. Action / Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Debra Bricker Balken, Morris Dickstein, Douglas Dreishpoon, Charlotte Eyerman, Mark Godfrey, Caroline A. Jones, Norman L. Kleeblatt and Irving Sandler. New York and New Haven: Jewish Museum; Yale University Press, 2008: 8, 23, 161, 224, illustrated. Macnair, Jennifer, Thomas Frick and Nola Butler, ed. BCAM/LACMA 2008 (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008: 98. Adolph Gottlieb: Selected Bibliography—Books 6 Schall, Jan and Robert Storr. Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Kansas City, Missouri: Trustees of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008: 84–85, illustrated. Scott, Deborah Emont, ed. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection. Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008: 210, illustrated. Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Texts by Adam D. Weinberg and Shamim M. Momin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008. 2007 The Abstraction of Language: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2007: illustrated. All for Art! (exhibition catalogue). Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2007: 187: illustrated. Godfrey, Mark. Abstraction and the Holocaust (exhibition catalogue). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007: 16, 37–38. Neff, Terry Ann R. The Fisher Collection: A–K (exhibition catalogue). Text by Mark Rosenthal. San Francisco: Doris and Donald Fisher, 2007: 214–217, 373: illustrated. Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism (exhibition catalogue). Text by Jeffrey Wechsler. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2007: 56–61: illustrated. Ravenal, John B. Modern & Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007: 8: illustrated. Wilkin, Karen. Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–75 (exhibition catalogue). New York: American Federation of Arts, 2007: illustrated. 2006 Adolph Gottlieb: Selected Bibliography—Books 7 Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints (exhibition catalogue). Text by Sanford Hirsch. New York: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. 2006. Celant, Germano and Lisa Dennison. New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A. 2006: 80–81: illustrated. Gottlieb: Escultor (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Sanford Hirsch, Tomas Llorens, and the artist. Segovia, Spain: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, 2006. Lewis, Michael J. American Art and Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2006:
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