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Birth
1896 (Boston, Massachusetts)
Death
1983
Lived/Active
New York/California
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mod figure-views, still life, non objective painting
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Henry Botkin studied at the Art Students League in New York City and also painted at Provincetown. He was an abstract painter who served from 1957 to 1961 as President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. He was a long time resident of New York City.
In 1935, he visited Charleston, South Carolina where he painted low-country blacks in a romantic manner that some criticized for lacking social realism. By the late 1940s he had (showing 500 of 4666 characters). |
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