Milton Resnick: Paintings 1937-1987

A fifty-year retrospective survey, Milton Resnick Paintings 1937-1987, traces the artist’s transition from his early, inventive Abstract Expressionist works, to the dense allover canvases of his maturity for which he is best known. Resnick’s thickly impastoed works, sometimes of immense proportions, reflect a faith in the evocative powers of paint itself. 

Drawn largely from the Foundation’s collection, the exhibition will also include loans from private and museum collections, including rarely-seen works from the 1940s and 50s. Additional works, such as the monumental and seminal New Bride (1963) from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will be added to exhibition in fall 2018, and remain at the Foundation on extended loan. 

The exhibition will be presented on three floors of the converted synagogue, on the lower east side of New York, that served as Resnick’s studio from 1976 until his death in 2004. The artist’s final studio, a closet-size room where he painted exclusively on paper in the last years of his life, is meticulously preserved and on view on the third floor.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website 

Whether or not you go, the catalog,  Milton Resnick: Paintings 1937–1987, accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of his work to be held in New York City, where he made his home. The catalog doubles as a monograph on Resnick's work, documenting his over-50-year career, beginning as a member of the first generation of abstract expressionist painters in the late 1930s, and developing into a painter of thickly textured, seemingly monochromatic paintings of powerful emotional force. The exhibition is drawn largely from the Foundation's holdings, but also includes major loans from museum and private collections. The book also reproduces a half-dozen major works not included in the exhibition.

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