
Blue Diamond, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints
Catalogue
- Year
- 1975
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 75.9 × 56.2 cm (29 15/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ilya Bolotowsky
Artist

Painting
Ilya Bolotowsky was a Russian-born abstract painter and sculptor who worked predominantly in geometric abstraction and neoplasticism from the 1930s onward. He developed a rigorous vocabulary of primary colors, straight lines, and rectangular forms influenced by Mondrian and the De Stijl movement. Bolotowsky lived and worked in New York from 1923, becoming a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group and a key figure in establishing geometric abstraction in postwar America. His paintings and wall-sized murals reduced composition to essential relationships between color and form, executed with technical precision across canvas, panel, and architectural commissions.
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Grey Diamond
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Record
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- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Year
- 1975
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 75.9 × 56.2 cm (29 15/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1975-077829
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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