Augury
Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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Augury
194620th century
175 x 127 mm (6.9 x 5 in.)
Adolph Gottlieb, American, (1903–1974)
Object Type:
print
Medium and Support:
Drypoint on off-white laid paper
State:
Only state
Print impression quality:
Excellent, with plate tone
Edition:
15 (presumably fewer actually printed, according to Charles Young)
Marks:
Signed in pencil, lower right: “Adolph Gottlieb”; inscribed, lower left: “Augury” and numbered “1/15”
Provenance / Collectors' Marks:
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Collection, New York
Bibliography:
G.F. 4650P; Associated American Artists 22.
Credit Line:
Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1998
Accession Number:
1998.21.1
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- Abstract Expressionist
- nonrepresentational art - Art which presents a visual form with no specific reference to anything outside itself. With regard to 20th-century art, use "Nonobjective." [May 1993 related term added.]
- pictographs - Highly simplified or conventionalized pictures that stand for the thing pictured; may be used as writing signs corresponding to individual words or phonetic elements in a language. Use also for certain prehistoric pictures and linear designs
Dimensions
- plate Dimensions: 175 x 127 mm (6.9 x 5 in.)
Bibliography List
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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Adolph Gottlieb : early prints / [exhibition curated by Sanford Hirsch]..
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
New York, 2006
Page Number: 32
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Credit Caption
Adolph Gottlieb, American, (1903–1974) . Augury, 1946. Drypoint on off-white laid paper. Only state. plate : 175 x 127 mm (6.9 x 5 in.). Sheet : 243 x 195 mm (9.6 x 7.7 in.). DAC accession number 1998.21.1. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1998. (photo: M. Cook) .