Large-Scale Abstract Expressionist Painting Installed at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln

NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Massive Summary Expressionist Painting Install

Elias Bolotoski’s 6 -foot -by -21 -foot painting without title (1973) will return to see the storage after years thanks to the donation of Bloomberg donors.

Bolotosky was an early practitioner to integrate the arts into health care settings

March 11, 2025

New York, New York – NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that the Summary Expressionist Painter Elias Bolotoski’s 6 -foot -21 feet painting Free title (1973) After years of storage, NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln has been permanently installed in the lobby. Initially developed by the Artist for NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx, the work returns to the public thanks to a $ 70,000 donation from Bloomberg donors. Twenty -two small works of the artist will also be prepared and installed in NYC Health + Hospital facilities. Nearly 900 works of art in NYC Health + Hospitals are available for free views worldwide Bloomberg contacts The app, and these tasks now have an informational wall text and a QR code that causes additional content on the app.

“Elias Bolotosky’s 20th in summary art Movement^Third The century was enough and we are fortunate in NYC Health + Hospitals that its 25 works include this massive wall. Assistant Vice President of Arts in Medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals Larissa trander. “Research has taught us that abstract art deepening in hospital settings deepens sympathy and encourages many perspectives. We hope that the wall will help patients, families and staff at Lincoln Hospital for years to come. Arts Bloomberg donors in the medical department are grateful for the farewell support of the project.

“This project is very interesting to us in NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln.” Cristina Cornerus, LMSW, MPA, FABC, Chief Executive Officer Of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln. “Adding artwork to places throughout the hospital is a great way to help our campus beautiful. We are excited to unveil the beautiful new bolotox wall that will affect our patients and staff, and make their plans possible to help Bloomberg’s donors.

“My father liked the painting, he danced around a painting from one painting, dancing around – he never had a place to sit in his studio because he liked to work.” Artist’s son Andrew Bolotosky. “I’m glad this wall has been restored to the public, because I know it will mean a lot for it.”

Artist Elias Bolotoxy (1907-1981) developed his abstract artistic practice after traveling from Russia’s St. Petersburg to New York. Bolotosky, a preliminary practitioner to integrate the arts into health care settings, was commissioned in 1941 by the Work Progress Administration to paint a wall for the hospital on Roosevelt Island. Today, the artist’s collection in NYC Health + Hospitals has more than 20 works.

Bolotoski’s visual language and simple maps showed the healing benefits of summary art works. According to Leading art and health specialist Judy Rollins“Summary art enables our brain to flow into its inner states, which is difficult to access otherwise.” Studies Supporting this idea, noting that summarizing art is non-representation-unannounced scenes or symbolic works-it encourages the formation of new emotional and academic associations, which can significantly benefit goodness. Arts in the department prepares eliminating art from art collection to create a quiet environment for patients, families and staff.

The art collection of NYC Health + Hospitals is from the 1930s, when the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration kept artists to create work for government buildings. Its combination of more than 7,500 art works include paintings, mosaics, images, sculptures, installation art, and walls by emerging and established professional artists. The collection includes some of the leading artists in the United States, such as Jacob Lawrence, Romeier Bariden, Helen Frankanthaler, Mary Frank, Betty Bulletin, Candida Alvarez, Andy Warol, Alexander Capidar, and Keith Loaring works. More than art collection, this work is helpful in enhancing more than 1.2 million patients with a healing environment, activation of places, engaging staff, promoting visual tactics, and receiving 43,000 employees and care for more than 1.2 million patients with care for NYC Health + hospitals.

In addition to the management of the Art Collection of the Health System, a diverse rows of arts programming were presented in the Arts in Department, including: Direct concerts in healthcare facilities through the Music for Civil Concert Series. Art observation and conversation for staff through Madison’s Heart; Write songs with professional musicians for parents through the Lauri Project; And an active artist in the residential program. A thorough review of the arts is available here in the Madison Department.

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About NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln
NYC Health + Hospital/Lincoln, located in South Bronx, has a 362 bed, severe care level is 1 trauma center and looks at more than 168,000 emergency room visits and more than 600,000 outpatient tours annually. Clinical centers of the Excellence include: Emergency and trauma care; Imaging of breast; The designated stroke center, the diabetes center and the HIV/AIDS Center. The Lincoln Hospital was the first Baby -friendly designated hospital, providing medical services and consultations to provide more than 1,500 per year. The hospital emphasizes basic care and special medicine using the latest developments in medical science. Lincoln is part of NYC Health + Hospitals, which is the nation’s largest healthcare system. See for more information www.facebook.com/lincolnhospSp.

About NYC Health + Hospitals in the Department of Medicine
NYC Health + Hospitals in the department’s medicine department are promoting emotional welfare in arts and using the arts, including literary, visual and performance arts throughout the health care system, to promote all patients and their families, employees, and more and more community. In addition to the system’s main visual arts collection management, the arts stimulate the evidence -based methods in the department and provide technical support to all the health care facilities and clinics of the system. This artistic innovation and education have been performed in the continuation of a comprehensive health care that supports the healing benefits of the arts. For more information, visit www.nycheldhospitals.org/artsinMedicine/.

About NYC Health + Hospitals
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