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Albert Kotin
AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST
1907-1980
THE PAINTER
by Albert Kotin
Every day
He grinds up
A small piece
Of his umbilical cord
Mixes it with oil
With varnish
And with turps
To paint
A self-portrait
On a
Tightly
Stretched
Placenta.
Alexander Calder wrote in 1968:
"As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art."
Albert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leading art movement of the postwar era. Artists including James Brooks, Nicolas Carone, Giorgio Cavallon, Willem & Elaine De Kooning, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Perle Fine, Michael Goldberg, Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Earl Kerkam, Franz Kline, Albert Kotin, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, James Rosati, Louis Schanker, David Smith, and Esteban Vicente were the 24 artists from the total of 256 participants who were included in the famous 9th St. Show, (1951) and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.
Albert Kotin, Struggle Between Plant And Insects,1948
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Exhibited:
New School for Social Research, 1948
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Albert Kotin, Spanish Dancers,1950
Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Exhibited:
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, 1951
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Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches
Exhibited in the 9th St. Show in 1951
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Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches.
Exhibited:
Grand Central Moderns, NYC, 1958.
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Albert Kotin, Untitled, 1954
Oil on canvas, 70 x 58 inches
Exhibited:
Grand Central Modern, 1958
Tanager Gallery, 1959
New York Hilton: 1959-1964
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1994
( catalog p.32 illustrated )
Book: amazon.com p.208 illustrated
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Albert Kotin, Phoenix , 1957
Oil on canvas, 57 x 36 inches
Exhibited:
Grand Central Modern, 1958
Tanager Gallery, 1959
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Albert Kotin, Whispering Rain,1957
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches
Exhibited:
Grand Central Modern, 1958
Tanager Gallery; 1959
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Oil on canvas, 69 x 79 inches
Exhibited:
Grand Central Modern, 1958
Reading Art Museum, 1995-1999
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 1994 ( catalog p.20 illustrated )
Rockford Art Museum, 2004 ( catalog p.48 illustrated )
Book: amazon.com p.141 illustrated
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Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches
Exhibited:
Grand Central Moderns, 1958
All rights reserved by the artist or his legal delegates.
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