Henry Botkin ptg African American children,1940s.There is one small square patch lower left, see the photos.

Signed by the artist just to the front left of the children below the handbag.

Approximate Dimensions: With Frame: 29.5"W * 25.5"H, Without frame:23.5"W * 19.25"H

After training at the Massachusetts College of Art, Botkin moved to New York City. He took classes in drawing and illustration at the Art Students League of New York and worked as an illustrator for Harpers, The Saturday Evening Post and Century magazines. In the late 1930s Botkin changed his approach to painting, moving from the School of Paris Modernism that he had adopted after he left Boston. Botkin was known for painting the theater, still lifes, landscapes, and low country blacks in a romantic manner that some criticized for lacking social realism. By the late 1940s he had turned to abstraction in oils and collage. He grew an interest in collage in the early 1950s, which dominated his work until the 1960s. He served as president of four major art organizations including: The Artists Equity Association, The American Abstract Artists, Group 256 Provincetown, and The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. Botkin helped to organize the first exhibition of American abstract painting at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Japan, in 1955. He also organized the sale of five hundred and forty paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, 1959. Botkin spoke on the radio, The Voice of America, television, lead panel discussions throughout the country, and lectured and taught privately in New York, California, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. (wikiwand)
Henry Botkin was an American painter who was born in 1896. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Childs Gallery have featured Henry Botkin's work in the past. Henry Botkins work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 150 USD to 5,313 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2003 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,313 USD for Motion Picture Actor Extra, sold at Doyle New York in 2007. In MutualArts artist press archive, Henry Botkin is featured in Arts calendar for March 29, 2015, a piece from 2theadvocate.com in April 2015. The artist died in 1983.(www.mutualart.com)

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