Milton Resnick American, 1917-2004

Milton Resnick was one of the last survivors of the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists.

He belonged to the 8^th Street Club and worked in close contact with Willem de Kooning, Philip Pavia, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline and others during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. He was also an energetic storyteller, relating anecdotes about those he knew, including Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock.

Resnick’s paintings are held in the Smithsonian, The National Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. A major abstract painter in his own right, although the youngest of the Abstract Expressionist artists, Resnick is celebrated for his mystical abstract paintings.