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Henry Botkin

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Henry Albert Botkin (1896 - 1983) was active/lived in New York, California.  Henry Botkin is known for Modernist figure-views, still life, non objective painting.

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 turned to abstraction in oils and collage.

He was hosted by his cousin and close companion, George Gershwin, composer, who was in Charleston with DuBose Heyward at Folly Beach setting his novel "Porgy" to music. Botkin was Gershwin's painting teacher, and Gershwin collected many of Botkin's paintings which people said corresponded in mood to Gershwin's music.  Martha Severens in her book, The Charleston Renaissance, wrote: "The interaction between the two cousins was a dynami   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4666 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Henry Botkin


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Magazine Illustration
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • New York City
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Still Life
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Charleston, South Carolina Pre 1940
  • Europe
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
  • Salons of America
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Emily Lowe Memorial Award, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Charleston Renaissance Artist
  • Figure Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Frank Rehn Gallery, New York City
  • Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Audubon Society of Artists
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Salons of America-
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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