19 Facts About Milton Resnick

Milton Resnick was an American artist noted for abstract paintings that coupled scale with density of incident.

Milton Resnick had a long and varied career, lasting about sixty-five years.

Milton Resnick produced at least eight hundred canvases and eight thousand works on paper and board.

Milton Resnick wrote poetry on a nearly daily basis for the last thirty years of his life.

Milton Resnick was an inveterate reader, riveting speaker and gifted teller of tales, capable of conversing with college audiences in sessions that might last three hours.

Milton Resnick's remaining estate is held in trust by the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation.

Milton Resnick was born of Jewish parentage in the village of Bratslav, now in Ukraine.

In 1938 Milton Resnick met Willem de Kooning, likely introduced to him by his sweetheart, Elaine Fried.

Milton Resnick was enrolled in the Federal Art Project of the WPA in 1939.

Milton Resnick became immersed in the art world after meeting many of the artists at Stewart's cafeteria, where they would congregate after collecting their WPA checks.

In 1945 at the age of twenty-eight, Milton Resnick was finally discharged from the armed forces.

Milton Resnick spent two years painting in Paris.

Milton Resnick met Giacometti, Gruber, as well as dealers Katia Granoff and Pierre Loeb.

Milton Resnick observed Artaud, Matisse, Picasso, and Derain at close range, and spent an afternoon with Brancusi in his studio.

Milton Resnick was one of the founding members of the artist's club, known simply as 'The Club,' in 1949.

Milton Resnick taught during these years, serving in a visiting capacity at several universities, but never joined any faculty.

Milton Resnick always maintained that ideas and narratives were just grist for his mill; nothing more.

Milton Resnick didn't generate ideas but made use of them as a subject if it pleased him to.

Milton Resnick's written poetry became increasingly important to him in the last ten years of his life.