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Watching

Date

1949

Creator

Adolph Gottlieb

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

From 1939 to 1945, the years of World War II, a group of European Surrealist painters sought refuge in New York City, where their ideas influenced many artists and writers, including Adolph Guttlieb...After rejecting the realist style used by many American artists during the Depression, in 1941 Gottlieb began a series of pictograph paintings. Watching belongs to this series. The works are based on a geometric grid of straight lines...The abstracted forms and symbols that he used in the paintings reflect his interest in the early cultures of North America and the ancient Near East. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)

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From 1939 to 1945, the years of World War II, a group of European Surrealist painters sought refuge in New York City, where their ideas influenced many artists and writers, including Adolph Guttlieb...After rejecting the realist style used by many American artists during the Depression, in 1941 Gottlieb began a series of pictograph paintings. Watching belongs to this series. The works are based on a geometric grid of straight lines...The abstracted forms and symbols that he used in the paintings reflect his interest in the early cultures of North America and the ancient Near East. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
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  • From 1939 to 1945, the years of World War II, a group of European Surrealist painters sought refuge in New York City, where their ideas influenced many artists and writers, including Adolph Guttlieb...After rejecting the realist style used by many American artists during the Depression, in 1941 Gottlieb began a series of pictograph paintings. Watching belongs to this series. The works are based on a geometric grid of straight lines...The abstracted forms and symbols that he used in the paintings reflect his interest in the early cultures of North America and the ancient Near East. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
  • From 1939 to 1945, the years of World War II, a group of European Surrealist painters sought refuge in New York City, where their ideas influenced many artists and writers, including Adolph Guttlieb...After rejecting the realist style used by many American artists during the Depression, in 1941 Gottlieb began a series of pictograph paintings. Watching belongs to this series. The works are based on a geometric grid of straight lines...The abstracted forms and symbols that he used in the paintings reflect his interest in the early cultures of North America and the ancient Near East. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
  • From 1939 to 1945, the years of World War II, a group of European Surrealist painters sought refuge in New York City, where their ideas influenced many artists and writers, including Adolph Guttlieb...After rejecting the realist style used by many American artists during the Depression, in 1941 Gottlieb began a series of pictograph paintings. Watching belongs to this series. The works are based on a geometric grid of straight lines...The abstracted forms and symbols that he used in the paintings reflect his interest in the early cultures of North America and the ancient Near East. from Snite Museum of Art, Selected Works: Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, 2005)
Adolph Gottlieb (American, 1903 - 1974)
1949
Paintings
Oil on Masonite
1954.001.003
Abstract Expressionist
abstraction
American
figurative art
pictographs
symbolism
© Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Raclin Murphy Museum: B01
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Gift of Joseph Shapiro

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