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Albert Kotin

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Albert Kotin
Born(1907-08-07)August 7, 1907
Minsk,Russia
DiedFebruary 6, 1980(1980-02-06)(aged 72)
New York City, New York,USA
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
MovementAbstract expressionism;New York Figurative Expressionism

Albert Kotin(August 7, 1907 – February 6, 1980) belonged to the early generation ofNew York SchoolAbstract Expressionistartists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including in Paris.[1]TheNew York SchoolAbstract Expressionism,represented byJackson Pollock,Willem de Kooning,Franz Kline,and others became a leadingart movementof the post-World War II era.

Biography

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Albert Kotin was born August 7, 1907, inMinsk,Russian Empireand emigrated to the US in 1908. He became a US citizen in 1923.

Kotin studied: (1924–1929) at theNational Academy of Design,New York City; withCharles Hawthorne,Provincetown, Massachusetts;(1929–32) at theAcadémie Julian,theAcadémie de la Grande Chaumièreand at the Atelier de Fresque and theAcadémie Colarossi,Paris, France; (1947–1951) at TheArt Students League of New York,New York City; under theGI Billhe went to study withHans Hofmannin Provincetown and in New York City.

He participated in theFederal Art Project:Public Works of Art Project(PWAP) (1933–34) andWorks Progress Administration/Federal Art Project(WPA/FAP) (1935–40). Kotin won competitions that were funded through commissions under theTreasury Department'sSection of Painting and Sculpture(later known as The Section of Fine Arts) inAda, Ohio,[2]and inArlington, New Jersey.[3]He completed two WPA murals,The CityandThe Marshfor theKearney, New Jersey, post officein 1938.

Kotin served in theU.S. Armymilitary service during World War II (1941–1945).

After the war Kotin found a studio on 10th Street. He soon joined the "Downtown Group"[4]which represented a group of artists who found studios in lower Manhattan in the area bounded by 8th and 12th street between First and Sixth Avenues during the late 1940s and early 1950s. These artists were called the "Downtown Group" as opposed to the "Uptown Group" established during the war atThe Art of This Century Gallery. In 1949 Kotin joined the "Artists' Club"[5]located at 39 East 8th Street. Albert Kotin was chosen by his fellow artists to show in theNinth Street Showheld on May 21 – June 10, 1951.[6] The show was located at 60 East 9th Street on the first floor and the basement of a building which was about to be demolished. "The artists celebrated not only the appearance of the dealers, collectors and museum people on the 9th Street, and the consequent exposure of their work but they celebrated the creation and the strength of a living community of significant dimensions."[7]

Kotin participated in all the invitational New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals. The first annual in 1951 was called theNinth Street Show.From 1953 to 1957 the invitational New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals were held in theStable Galleryon West 58th Street in New York City.[8]He was among the 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists who was included in all the Annuals.[9]These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.[10] Harold Rosenberg,New Yorkart criticlisted Albert Kotin among the "Tenth Street Artists: Individuals Prevail over the Group:"[11]Kotin was exhibited by theAnita Shapolsky Galleryin New York City, McCormick Gallery, and Robert Miller Gallery-New York.[12]

Kotin was also a poet who inspired his fellow artists.[13]Alexander Calderwrote in 1968, "As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art."[14]

Kotin died on February 6, 1980, in New York City from lung cancer.

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References

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  1. ^Art history.OCLC39229727– via worldcat.org.
  2. ^"New Deal WPA Art in Ohio".wpamurals.Archivedfrom the original on August 13, 2006.RetrievedSeptember 20,2006.
  3. ^"New Jersey New Deal Art".wpamurals.Archivedfrom the original on November 11, 2006.RetrievedSeptember 20,2006.
  4. ^Downtown Group
  5. ^Artists' Club
  6. ^9th Street Show PosterArchivedFebruary 5, 2012, at theWayback Machine
  7. ^Bruce Altshuler,Avant-Garde In Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century,New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994, Chapter 9, p.171
  8. ^New York school: abstract expressionists: artists choice by artists: a complete documentation of the New York painting and sculpture annuals, 1951–1957.OCLC50666793– via worldcat.org.
  9. ^"Albert Kotin Posters".albertkotin.Archived fromthe originalon April 29, 2009.
  10. ^New York school: abstract expressionists: artists choice by artists: a complete documentation of the New York painting and sculpture annuals, 1951–1957.OCLC50666793– via worldcat.org.
  11. ^Harold Rosenberg,"Tenth Street: A Geography of Modern Art", Art News Annual XXVIII, 1959, New York: Art Foundation Press, Inc. pp.:120–143
  12. ^"Albert Kotin".ArtSlant.Archivedfrom the original on September 23, 2015.RetrievedMarch 19,2015.
  13. ^American abstract expressionism of the 1950s: an illustrated survey with artists' statements, artwork and biographies.OCLC50253062– via worldcat.org.
  14. ^From a monograph byMathias Goeritz:"Alexander Calder",1968 Private Collection

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