A. S. Baylinson

Abraham Solomon Baylinson (6 January 1882 – May 1950) was a Russian-American painter who was active in the early modernist movement.

Born in Moscow, Russia on 6 January 1882, the Baylinson family moved to the United States around 1892.

[1][2] While at the New York School of Art he trained under Robert Henri and alongside students such as Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Glenn Coleman, Eugene Speicher, and Patrick Henry Bruce.

[1] Baylinson was an instructor of drawing and painting at the Art Students League from 1931 to 1933.

In early 1931 a fire destroyed almost twenty years of work related to Baylinson's career.