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Sanford Hirsch

is Executive Director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.

The Start of the Gottlieb Foundation

By Sanford Hirsch

The idea for a foundation to help older artists started in a discussion between Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko in the late 1960s. Mark Rothko died in February, 1970; Gottlieb in March, 1974. Both artists left similar instructions to establish foundations to help individual artists.

<p>Adolph and Esther Gottlieb in Provincetown, 1956. ©️Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY</p>
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