White Tundo by Ilya Bolotowsky, 1968. Oil on Canvas

31.5 inch circumference

(From Wiki):Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 to November 22, 1981) was a leading early 20th-century Russian-American painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. Born to Jewish parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bolotowsky lived in Baku and Constantinople before immigrating to the United States in 1923, where he settled in New York City. He attended the National Academy of Design. He became associated with a group called "The Ten Whitney Dissenters or simply "The Ten", a group of artists including Louis Schanker, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Ben-Zion, and Joseph Solman who rebelled against the strictures of the Academy and held independent exhibitions. Bolotowsky was strongly influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian[4][5][6] and the tenets of De Stijl, a movement that advocated the possibility of ideal order in the visual arts. Bolotowsky adopted Mondrian's use of horizontal and vertical geometric pattern and a palette restricted to primary colors and neutrals.Having turned to geometric abstractions, in 1936 Bolotowsky co-founded American Abstract Artists, a cooperative formed to promote the interests of abstract painters and to increase understanding between themselves and the public. Ilya Bolotowsky (left)Bolotowsky mural for the Williamsburg Housing ProjectBolotowsky's 1936 mural for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn was one of the first abstract murals done under the Federal Art Project.[10]In the 1960s, he began making three-dimensional forms, usually vertical and straight-sided. Bolotowsky's work was exhibited at the University of New Mexico in 1970. Bolotowsky's first solo museum show was in 1974 at New York City's Guggenheim Museum and went on to the National Collection of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City. A Bolotowsky painting bought at a North Carolina Goodwill store for $9.99 was auctioned at Sotheby's in September 2012 for 34,375.[21]TeachingBolotowsky taught at Black Mountain College from 1946 to 1948.[22][23] The artist Kenneth Noland was among his students.[24][25] He taught humanities and fine arts at the Southampton, New York campus of Long Island University, the State University of New York at New Paltz, the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and the University of New Mexico.[26]CollectionsThe Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art CollectionMetropolitan Museum of Art[27]Museum of Modern Art[28]Smithsonian American Art Museum[29]Black Mountain College Museum + Arts CenterReferences Susan Behrends Frank (ed). 2013. Made in the U.S.A.: American art from the Phillips Collection, 1850–1970. Yale University Press. p. 234. "The Ten Whitney Dissenters". louisschanker.info. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2010. Weiss, Jeffrey; Gage, John; Rothko, Mark (1998). Mark Rothko. Yale University Press. p. 337. ISBN 0300081936. The Ten, artists rothko bolotowsky. Bolotowsky, Ilya (1974). Ilya Bolotowsky: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. mondrian bolotowsky. Perl, Jed (June 3, 2009). New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century. ISBN 9780307538888. Noll, Anna C.; Kass, Emily; Blume, Sharon (1987). "Collection Selections". Jones, Amelia (February 9, 2009). A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945. ISBN 9781405152358. Institute, Carnegie (1981). "Carnegie Magazine". Burns, Sarah L.; Carbone, Teresa A.; Madsen, Annelise K.; Oehler, Sarah Kelly (2016). America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. ISBN 9780300214857. "New York Magazine". May 28, 1990. Bolotowsky, Ilya (1970). "Ilya Bolotowsky; Paintings & Columns". J.D. Cohn. Bolotowsky paintings & columns, March 30 toApril 25, 1974. Borgenicht Gallery, New York City. Ilya Bolotowsky. 1974. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Salvesen, Magda; Cousineau, Diane (2005). Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust. ISBN 9780813536040. Archived from the original on June 23, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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