Adolph Gottlieb, American, 1903 to 1974, color lithograph, Brink, 1960. Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Numbered in pencil, 75 of 300, lower left. Adolph Gottlieb is an American artist, known for Primitive painting totemic non objective and realism. He was a founding member of The Ten, a group devoted to abstract art with whom he was active for about five years. He became a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism whose painting style is linked to Marc Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnet Newman. A major theme in Gottliebs painting is the challenge to humans to resolve dualities within the universe, the pressure of opposites: male and female, chaos and order, creation and destruction, order and chaos. Graphic Art Prints and Collectibles.