Henry Botkin Oil Painting Signed With Associated American Artists Label Mother and Child Circa 1940 American Expressionism

Henry Botkin, American (1896-1983)

Botkin was born in  Boston Mass but spent most of his life working and living in New York. “Henry Albert Botkin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 5th, 1896. After his early training at the Massachusetts School of Art, he moved to New York City. Botkin took classes in drawing and illustration at the Art Students League and worked as an illustrator for Harper’s, The Saturday Evening Post, and Century magazines.”
Also Botkin was the cousin of George Gershwin, Bortkin spent years with his cousin during Gershwin's writing of Porgy and Bess. In "1934 joined Gershwin in Folly Island, South Carolina. Botkin and Gershwin worked simultaneously; Gershwin composing the opera, Porgy and Bess and Botkin painting scenes from the life of the American Negro in the South."

Signed on the front, lower left. Titled on the back Mother and Child
Date: Circa 1940s. In the late 1930's Botkin moved away from his earlier style of Impressionism and moved to a more Abstract style. 
 Medium: oil 

Titled on back label on the Associated American Artists label. “Mother and Child” and documented on ledger “P 2405” The label dates from late 1930s to mid 1940’s. 

Framed and back of painting sealed. 

Size: framed 24 3/4" x 32 1/2" 
         board 20 1/4" x 28" 
Condition: light soiling to the painting with a few small areas of paint chipping. Please see the images for more details. 

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