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3 unusual facts about Harry Holtzman


Harry Holtzman

1939: After England declares war on September 3, 1939, Mondrian flees his studio in Hempstead and stays with Ben Nicolson and Barbara Hepworth in Cornwall, where they have just fled.

In 2013, the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut presented "Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction", a retrospective of Holtzman's work divided into three periods: Early Abstractions (1928-1934), Pure Plastic Painting (1934-1950), and The First Paintings in History (1950-1987).

Sidney Jonas Budnick

He studied under Hans Hofmann, an abstract expressionist artist and teacher, and was friends with Harry Holtzman and Carl Holty, founders of the American Abstract Artists group.



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