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Not on viewObject number2009.28
Blue Disc on Green Ground
Artist
Adolph Gottlieb
(American, 1903-1974)
Date1966
Mediumscreenprint
Dimensionsmat: 28 × 20 in. (71.1 × 50.8 cm)
image: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
image: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
Round and Round, Ethel Denton Groos Gallery, November 4, 2017 - March 4, 2018
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextIn a 1962 interview, Adolph Gottlieb explained, “…since I eliminated almost everything from my painting except a few colors and perhaps two or three shapes, I feel a necessity for making the particular colors that I use, or the particular shapes, carry the burden of everything that I want to express.”
Adolph Gottlieb began making prints in the 1940s, but experimented with painting, sculpture, and stained glass for twenty years before returning to printmaking the year he made Blue Disc on Green Ground. In a series of “Bursts” he made numerous variations on these forms: a circular element above and an exploded form below.
