12 Facts About Harry Holtzman

Harry Holtzman was an American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists group.

An untitled gouache painting of the same year shows the carried on argument with Diller over whether circular forms could be integrated into a grid arrangement without seeming to be indiscreet and arbitrary, from this discussion Harry Holtzman decided they could not.

When Harry Holtzman returned to New York City in 1935, he joined the WPA Federal Art project, but was first assigned to write for the public relations department, since his art was considered too extreme for public placement.

In 1936 Harry Holtzman was instrumental in bringing together the nucleus of painters and sculptors who established the American Abstract Artists in 1937.

Harry Holtzman rented an apartment-studio for him, and during the next three and a half years he was one of Mondrian's most intimate associates.

Harry Holtzman set out in a new direction by working in the round.

In 1947, Harry Holtzman became a faculty member of the Institute for General Semantics, where he taught with Alfred Korzybski until 1954.

Since 1957, Harry Holtzman, visited the Asian continent documenting its life and culture and gathering an important photographic documentation, relevant both from the artistic and ethnographic point of view.

Harry Holtzman is survived by his three triplet children, Madalena Holtzman, Jackie Holtzman and Jason Holtzman.

Morris, founding members of the American Abstract Artists are paired in an intimate 2-man exhibit, curated by Kinney Frelinghuysen and Madalena Harry Holtzman, and designed to evoke an informal conversation between the two artists.

Harry Holtzman takes Mondrian to his summer home in the Berkshires to recuperate from the journey, then finds him an apartment on the third floor of 353 East 56th st.

Harry Holtzman will pay the rent and buy him a bed and after Mondrian resists for several months, a record player.