Oral history interview with Esther Dick Gottlieb
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gottlieb, Esther Dick
label: Interviewer
content: Tuchman, Phyllis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Artists' Union (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Betty Parsons Gallery
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
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content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
label: Names
content: Graham, John, 1887-1961
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content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
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content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
label: Names
content: Tschacbasov, Nahum, 1899-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Abstract expressionism
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content: Philadelphia Ten (Group of artists)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation. Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Gottlieb, Esther Dick
label: Interviewer
content: Tuchman, Phyllis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Esther Dick Gottlieb (1907-1988) was born in Connecticut and was the wife of artist Adolph Gottlieb. They lived in New York City. She worked frequently as her husband's assistant.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cassettes (Sound recording, analog.)
label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 Oct. 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gottli81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Cassettes
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Esther Gottlieb conducted 1981 Oct. 22, by Phyllis Tuchman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gottlieb recalls the art scene of the 1930s and 1940s as it touched Mark Rothko, speaking of The Ten and the Artists' Union and, in particular, Adolph Gottlieb, Milton Avery, Barnett Newman, and John Graham; Nahum Tschacbasov is mentioned briefly. She discusses the activities of various galleries and talks about the work of the Rothko, Gottlieb, and Longview Foundations.