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Title:Thrust
Artist:Adolph Gottlieb (American, New York 1903–1974 New York)
Date:1959
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:9 ft. × 90 in. (274.3 × 228.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1959
Accession Number:59.164
Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Adolph Gottlieb / 108'' x 90'' / 1959 / 5918
[French and Company, New York, 1959; sold to MMA]
New York. French and Company. "Adolph Gottlieb: New Paintings," January 6–February 6, 1960, no. 5.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970," October 18, 1969–February 8, 1970, no. 102.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums," November 30, 1970–January 10, 1971, no. 97.
Saint Louis, Mo. City Art Museum. "Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums," January 28–March 7, 1971, no. 97.
Seattle Art Museum. "Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums," March 25–May 9, 1971, no. 97.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Installation of the 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture Galleries," opened October 5, 1971, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Art: Additions to the Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition," April 14–May 15, 1972, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "Aspects of Postwar Painting in America: In Observation of the Bicentennial Year 1976," January 17–February 29, 1976, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Reinstallation of the 20th Century Art Galleries," opened November 4, 1977, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Summer Loan Exhibition," July 17–September 30, 1979, unnum. brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions: Twentieth Century Art Department," October 16, 1979–January 30, 1980, no catalogue.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 189–91, ill.
Dan Sullivan. "Lively Art Added at Metropolitan: Museum Galleries Become Stages for Drama, Poetry." New York Times (June 6, 1967), p. 52.
Jerrold Morris. On the Enjoyment of Modern Art. 2nd rev. ed. [1st ed. 1965]. Greenwich, Conn., 1968, pp. 50–51, 73, colorpl. 16.
Andrew Hudson. "Adolph Gottlieb's Paintings at the Whitney." Art International 12 (April 1968), p. 26, ill. p. 28.
Mahonri Sharp Young. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centenary Exhibitions I. The New York School." Apollo 90 (November 1969), p. 432, fig. 8.
Leo Lerman. The Museum: One Hundred Years and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1969, ill. p. 342.
Thomas N. Maytham. Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Seattle, 1970, pp. 19, 149, no. 97, ill. p. 148 (color).
Nora B. Beeson. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1972, p. 286.
Robert Rosenblum. Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko. New York, 1975, p. 206, fig. 301.
Philip Alan Cecchettini, and Don Whittemore, in consultation with Theodore Brachfeld. Art America: A Resource Manual. New York, 1977, p. 230.
Andrew Hudson. "Adolph Gottlieb: An Artist Who is Surviving." Artmagazine (March–April 1978), p. 22.
Jean-Loup Bourget. "Le monde des arts: Lettre de New-York." Vie des arts 24 (Spring 1980), p. 17.
Lowery S. Sims inProfil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1981, p. 167.
René Huyghe. Les signes du temps et l'art moderne. [Paris], 1985, p. 104.
Eugene Victor Thaw. "The Abstract Expressionists." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 44 (Winter 1986–87), p. 13, fig. 6 (color).
Philip S. Rawson. Design. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1987, pp. 97–98, fig. 3.36.
Claude Cernuschi. Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance. New York, 1992, pp. 226, 230, fig. 87.
Amy Winter inWolfgang Paalen: Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion. Exh. cat., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Klagenfurt, 1993, ill. p. 155.
Claude Cernuschi. "Not an Illustration but the Equivalent": A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism. Madison, N.J., 1997, ill. p. 151.
Ellen G. Landau. Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique. New Haven and London, 2005, p. 29, colorpl. 3 and ill. cover (color).
John J. Reich and Lawrence S. Cunningham. Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities. 6th ed. 2006, vol. 2, pp. 462–63, fig. 22.5 (color).
Claudine Humblet. The New American Abstraction 1950–1970. Milan, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 95, 101 n. 88, ill. p. 89 (color).
Adolph Gottlieb (American, New York 1903–1974 New York)
1942
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