Details

Title

Multi Forms

Artist/Maker

Ilya Bolotowsky (American, born Russia, 1907–1981)

Date

1935– 1936

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

27 x 36 inches

Credit

Bequest of Mr. Bim Franklin

Accession #

2008.44

Location

Currently not on view

Russian-born Ilya Bolotowsky immigrated to New York in 1923 and was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), a group that formed in 1936 to promote American abstract art. Bolotowsky likely made Abstract around 1933 when he began painting abstractly but before he had begun to exclude biomorphic elements from his art.

Image Copyright

© Estate of Ilya Bolotowsky/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York