The Evolution of an Abstract Vision Harry Holtzman was an American painter, photographer, and art collector. His artistic journey began with an early interest in advanced art, which led him to attend the Art Students League of New York. During this formative period, he produced a wide corpus of drawings from the nude, which revealed a progressive evolution toward abstraction. His work eventually moved into a series of rectilinear works and independent abstraction from external objects. This research eventually culminated in a series of "open reliefs," which were free-standing structures paint…