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1917 |
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Born January 8th in Bratslav, Ukraine |
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1922 |
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Family moves to United Strates, settling in Brooklyn; attends public |
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1931 |
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Enrolls in commercial art program at the Pratt Institute Evening School, Brooklyn; teacher advises him to transfer to fine arts |
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1932 |
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Enrolls in American Artists’ School, New York; fellow classmate is Ad Reinhardt (who later becomes an abstract expressionist painter like Resnick) |
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1934 |
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Milton’s father tries to discourage him from being artist; Milton moves out, working as an elevator boy to pay for American Artists’ School; the school provides a small room to paint in and Milton uses materials left over by night school students as he cannot afford his own |
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1938 |
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Moves to studio on West 21st Street, near fellow expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (he and de Kooning retain close relationship through the 1960s) |
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1940 |
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Drafted into U.S. Army; serves in Iceland and Europe; lives in Paris for three years after the war; meets Alberto Giacometti and |
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1948 |
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Returns to New York; enrolls in abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann’s school (and pays tuition with remaining G.I. benefits); rents a studio on East 8th Street, near de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline; meets Pat Passlof, whom he marries in 1961 |
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1976 |
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Purchases an abandoned synagogue on Eldridge Street in New York’s lower east side where he maintains a large studio and also resides |
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2004 |
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Dies in New York City |
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