Ilya Bolotowsky
Mural Sketch for Health Building Hall of Medical Sciences, New York World's Fair

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Artist Ilya Bolotowsky American, born Russia, 1907–1981

CultureAmerican

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Mural Sketch for Health Building Hall of Medical Sciences, New York World's Fair

Date1938

PlaceNew York, New York, United States

MediumCasein on cardboard

Dimensions10 × 21 7/8 in. (25.4 × 55.6 cm)
Frame: 10 3/8 × 19 3/8 × 2 1/8 in. (26.4 × 49.3 × 5.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein

Object number81.187

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance[Washburn Gallery, New York, by 1980-December 14, 1981]; purchased by MFAH, 1981.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "New Deal for Art," Gallery Association of New York State (#76).

Exhibited: "Ilya Bolotowsky WPA Murals: Paintings from 1935 to 1945," Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, 1 October - 1 November 1980.

Exhibited: "Miro in America, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 21 April - 27 June 1982.

Exhibited: " Modern American Painting: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Athens Exchange Exhibition, National Pinakothiki, Athens, Greece, 20 September - 7 November 1982 (Exh. # A.9).

Exhibited: "Texas Collects Willem de Kooning and His Contemporaries," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 19 - May 21, 1995.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and dated at lower right, lead: "Ilya Bolotowsky 1938"

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