1. Harry Gottlieb was an American painter, screen printer, lithographer, and educator.
15 Facts About Harry Gottlieb
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Harry Gottlieb immigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis.
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From 1915 to 1917, Harry Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where he became friends with Wanda Gag, later known as a famous illustrator.
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Harry Gottlieb studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
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Harry Gottlieb was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by the Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Harry Gottlieb settled in 1918.
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Harry Gottlieb was a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the Works Progress Administration.
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Harry Gottlieb remained active as a painter and screen printer after the closure of the Federal Art Project, and served as the first director of the short-lived American Artists School in New York City.
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Harry Gottlieb was a leader and active member of the Artists Union and the Artists Congress.
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Harry Gottlieb was especially respected for his support of African American causes in the Artist's Union and American Artists' Congress.
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Harry Gottlieb lectured widely on art education and promoted the government support of artist and artistic projects.
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Harry Gottlieb was included in the 1944 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.
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Harry Gottlieb's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Harry Gottlieb married Russian born artist and sculptor Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York.
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In 1923, Harry Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Harry Gottlieb was an adherent of the political theories of Karl Marx and joined the Communist Party in the 1930s, remaining a lifelong member of the party.