[1] The New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.

Albert Kotin was born August 7, 1907, in Minsk, Russian Empire and emigrated to the US in 1908.

[3] He completed two WPA murals, The City and The Marsh for the Kearney, New Jersey, post office in 1938.

Kotin served in the U.S. Army military service during World War II (1941–1945).

[13] Alexander Calder wrote in 1968, "As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art.