Ashes of Phoenix
Artist
Adolph Gottlieb
American, 1903–1974
Date1948
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 38 in. (76.2 x 96.5 cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (80 x 100.3 cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (80 x 100.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2014.20.23
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesGrace Glueck, “Art in Review: Adolph Gottlieb ‘Pictographs,” Knoedler & Company,” New York Times, March 20, 1998, E37.
Hilton Kramer, “20th-Century Collectors: The Patrons Have a Show,” New York Observer, June 19, 2000.
Craig Jarvis, “Museum of Art snags trove of modern works,” News & Observer (Raleigh), May 22, 2008, illus. (color) 1A.
T. R. [Timothy Riggs], entry for Captain’s Watch in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum 2011), no. 7, illus. (color) 43.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, “Adolph Gottlieb,” January 24–February 12, 1949, no. 9, illus.
New York, NY, Knoedler & Company, “Adolph Gottlieb Pictographs: A Selection from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation,” March 12–April 4, 1998.
New York, NY, Knoedler & Company, “The Collector as Patron in the Twentieth Century,” May 2–July 31, 2000, cover, illus. (color) 36–37, illus. (color) 53.
Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 7, illus (color), 43.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 30, 2023. Object Rights Statement
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