Jules Olitski (1922-2007)

Aliases: Jules Demikovsky

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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  Jules Olitski (1922-2007)

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  JULES OLITSKI

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  Jules Olitski (b. 1922)

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  Jules Olitski , b. 1922 Z magna and acrylic on canvas

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Jules Olitski Biography

(b Snovsk, Russia [now Shchors, Ukraine], 27 March 1922). American painter and sculptor. Born shortly after the political execution of his father, Jevel Demikovsky, in 1921, he was taken to New York by his mother and grandmother in 1923; his mother remarried in 1926. He showed an early love for drawing and attended art classes on Saturday mornings in New York in 1935. He was much impressed by seeing works by Rembrandt at the New York World’s Fair in 1939, and in 1940 he studied landscape painting informally under Samuel Rothbort (b 1882). From 1940 to 1942 he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York under Sidney Dickinson (b 1890) while taking sculpture classes in the evenings at the Beaux-Arts Institute, working in clay. During this period he first came into contact with abstract art in New York at the Museum of Non-objective Painting, which later served as the basis of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 1942, along with other young painters, he was introduced by Victor Thall to works by the Impressionists, the Nabis and the Fauves.

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