Timeline

1917

Born January 8th in Bratslav, Ukraine

1922

Family moves to United Strates, settling in Brooklyn; attends public

1931

Enrolls in commercial art program at the Pratt Institute Evening School, Brooklyn; teacher advises him to transfer to fine arts

1932

Enrolls in American Artists’ School, New York; fellow classmate is Ad Reinhardt (who later becomes an abstract expressionist painter like Resnick)

1934

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

1938

Moves to studio on West 21st Street, near fellow expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (he and de Kooning retain close relationship through the 1960s)

1940

Drafted into U.S. Army; serves in Iceland and Europe; lives in Paris for three years after the war; meets Alberto Giacometti and

1948

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

1976

Purchases an abandoned synagogue on Eldridge Street in New York’s lower east side where he maintains a large studio and also resides

2004

Dies in New York City