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Ilya Bolotowsky was born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) Russia in 1907. His family emigrated to Turkey in 1920 where they lived until 1923 when they left to settle in New York. He studied at the National Academy of Design, worked as a textile designer, and produced murals and paintings for the Public Works of Art Project and Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. He was a founder of the American Abstract Artists when they formed in 1936 as a discussion and exhibition group. A decade later, from 1946 to 1948, he lead the art department at Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, NC) and continued to experiment with geometric abstraction derived from Piet Mondrian's Neo-plasticism. Bolotowsky explored variations of this style for nearly fifty years until his death in 1981.
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- DMA Acquisition proposal (2006.6), 2006.
- Nancy J. Troy and Rina Arya. "Bolotowsky, Ilya." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed November 25, 2014, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T009753.
- "Ilya Bolotowsky: Large Blue Horizontal" (1976.182) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1976.182. (October 2006)
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265932582: UMO. [Caption] Ilya Bolotowsky standing by his mural during the opening of Mural Show at the Federal Art Gallery. Source: [Ilya Bolotowsky], 1938 May 25 / Cyril Mipaas, photographer. Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942., Wikimedia Commons, accessed July 11, 2016.
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Geometric Abstraction, exhibition catalogue 1972. 12712425: UMO
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Ilya Bolotowsky was born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) Russia in 1907. His family emigrated to Turkey in 1920 where they lived until 1923 when they left to settle in New York. He studied at the National Academy of Design, worked as a textile designer, and produced murals and paintings for the Public Works of Art Project and Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. He was a founder of the American Abstract Artists when they formed in 1936 as a discussion and exhibition group. A decade later, from 1946 to 1948, he lead the art department at Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, NC) and continued to experiment with geometric abstraction derived from Piet Mondrian's Neo-plasticism. Bolotowsky explored variations of this style for nearly fifty years until his death in 1981.
Drawn from
- DMA Acquisition proposal (2006.6), 2006.
- Nancy J. Troy and Rina Arya. "Bolotowsky, Ilya." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed November 25, 2014, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T009753.
- "Ilya Bolotowsky: Large Blue Horizontal" (1976.182) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1976.182. (October 2006)
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I am tagging this note with %UMO for review so that Megan can apply the tag to other notes when needed. Currently the tag is not available to her because the Resources notebook had not been shared. (Once the tag has been used here and elsewhere, hopefully it could be deleted from this note in the future. If not, it will not do any harm. EAS 7/15/2016)
I am removing the following tags because I have completed Piction cataloging for the photo of Bolotowsky by his FAP mural design- %PictionMW, %UMO for review, %UMO pending.
I have completed revisions and updated formatting. I'm removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag- March 7, 2017. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for her review.
I added Geometric Abstraction exh cat to this note, but the Bolotowsky works in the DMA collection were not in the exhibition.
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