Gottlieb/Rothko The Surrealist Years

Gottlieb/Rothko: The Surrealist Years is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, two central figures of Abstract Expressionism. Curated by Arne Glimcher at 125 Newbury as a sequel to 2025's Gottlieb/Rothko: The Realist Years, it gathers works from 1941 to 1951, centered on 1942–1946. In that pivotal decade the two longtime friends broke from Realist figuration, forging a Surrealist abstraction shaped by myth, automatism, and the unconscious in the wake of World War II. Highlights include Gottlieb's Pictographs and Rothko's Gethsemane (1945).