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...Among them: Abstract Expressionists Ferren, James Brooks. Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning; Sculptors David Smith and David Hare; Critics Alfred Frankfurter and Thomas Hess of Art News; Fine Arts Professors James S. Ackerman (Harvard) and Meyer Schapiro (Columbia...
Another Name. At 42, Joey has been waiting a long time to get to the center of things. Born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb, he grew up in Philadelphia. "My folks were poor," he remembers, "but I didn't mind poverty. They always played games. For instance, when I'd come home, they had moved." He quit high school, formed the Bishop Brothers Trio with two pals named Reisman and Spector (Bishop was the name of another friend who promised to drive them to auditions). Through the late '30s, they played the Eastern burlesque circuit...
...sometimes uses photographs in painting nature-titled abstractions, readily admits that nature has long been an at-the-elbow companion. Says John Helicker, another abstractionist: "The best paintings I have ever done relate to the deepest feelings I have had about a place." But old-line Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb grimly dissents: "I never use nature as a starting point, I never abstract from nature, I never consciously think of nature when I paint. In the painting Red Sky, my intention was simply to divide the canvas roughly in two, using red paint in one area and black paint...
...each. But the boom is by no means all Pollock. Among the sellout shows this year: Mark Rothko (top price $5,000), Hans Hofmann (top $7,500), Philip Guston (top $4,000), and William Baziotes, whose recent show sold out at $3,500 top even before it opened. Adolph Gottlieb's show sold eight of ten (top $4,000), and Sculptor Seymour Lipton's show sold 16 of 21 with a top price...
...Objective Painter Adolph Gottlieb, Art Students League Director Stewart Klonis, Arts Publisher Jonathan Marshall, Old-Line Abstractionist George L. K. Morris, Realist Painter Ogden M. Pleissner and Sculptor William Zorach...