Albert Kotin (1907-1980) was born in what is now Belarus and immigrated to the United States in 1908. In 1933, Kotin was employed under the first government art program, Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). Like Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, Kotin was assigned to the murals division. After serving in the military as a cartography instructor, he studied at the Art Students League with Hans Hofmann from 1947 to 1951, becoming an active member of the early generation of Abstract Expressionist artists in New York. Kotin’s work has been exhibited at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (1947); Stable Gallery in New York (1951, 1953-1957); Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1959); and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1963-64), among others.
