A career-spanning monograph on a key member of the "first generation" of Abstract Expressionists American artist Adolph Gottlieb (1903-74) was a central figure of the New York School of art from its very beginnings in the 1930s. The Pictograph paintings that he began making in 1941 are among the earliest examples of American artists creating work on a par with European modernists while establishing a distinct identity. His...