Milton Resnick:

811 Broadway, 1959-1961

March 7 - December 21, 2024

Milton Resnick
Botany, 1960
Oil on canvas
104.725 x 176 inches
Collection of Johnny Kahlbetzer

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents Milton Resnick: 811 Broadway, 1959-1961. Three large paintings from his short lived time at a studio on Broadway.

Geoffrey Dorfman, Resnick's biographer, sets the stage for these large works in his essay on the paintings, the time, and the artist:

The three huge paintings featured in this exhibition, Botany, Curtain for Tomorrow, and Octave, mark a pivot point in the career and indeed the life, of Milton Resnick. The year was 1960, and one might say that the Abstract Expressionist phenomenon had attained the very summit of its acceptance, captivating the imagination of the art public, the magazine writers, and finally the newly burgeoning marketplace for contemporary American painting. Ironically, at this victorious moment the collapse of the Abstract Expressionist movement was on the immediate horizon.