Small, uncharacteristically vibrant use of color, abstract painting framed in a wide, gilt frame.

Milton Resnick (1917–2004) was a pioneering abstract expressionist painter, born in Bratslav, Ukraine, before immigrating to New York City with his family in the early 1920s. As a teenager, Resnick pursued his passion for art despite his father's disapproval, entering the American Artists School in 1933 after transferring from Pratt, where he initially studied commercial art. During the 1930s, he became deeply involved in the vibrant downtown New York art world, working with and befriending significant figures such as Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky.
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Resnick returned to New York and began developing his signature abstract style, characterized by monumental canvases layered with dense pigment. He was a founding member of the influential Artists’ Club, which helped shape Abstract Expressionism in postwar America. Over a six-decade career, Resnick created hundreds of large-scale canvases and thousands of works on paper, establishing himself as one of the movement’s most dedicated and uncompromising practitioners.