29. Harry Gottlieb
(1895-1993)
Low Tide

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Gottlieb: Low Tide

Low Tide

Lithograph, 1936, 232 x 350 mm. Fine impression on BFK Rives wove paper with full margins, titled and signed in pencil from the edition of 100 issued by the American Artists School, 131 West 14th St, NYC, as part of its First Annual Print Series in 1936 (stamp verso); pale time stain in the area of the old mat opening and two small hinge stains at the top of the sheet. Gottlieb was born in Bucharest, Romania and came to America at the age of twelve. The family settled first in Minneapolis, where Gottlieb studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He was a forceful painter, and his prints -- lithographs and screen prints -- are the prints of a painter: strongly contrasted, almost too big for their size, unconcerned with detail or finesse in their effort to get the message across. Low Tide is a souvenir of the Great Depression, a depressing time indeed but one that produced some fine and strikingly individual art. Gottlieb died in New York City.