Pictograph

c. 1944 Sheet: 22 x 26.8 cm (8 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Platemark: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.109

From 1935 Adolph Gottlieb collected African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian sculpture in which he found a spiritual power and vitality lacking in contemporary Western art. By the early 1940s Gottlieb had developed his own pictographs—simple depictions of objects or shapes filling...

Drawing

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etching
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