How a Russian artist became a classic writer in the U.S. (PHOTOS)

It was there, in 1918, that the future artist visited an exhibition of David Burliuk's Cubo-Futurist paintings. Family portrait, 1900 Slobodkina FoundationIn the American Avant-GardeIn New York, Slobodkina enrolled in the National Academy of Design. Although she described the training as depressing and pointless, it was there that she met émigré artist Ilya Bolotovsky, whom she married in 1933. She created each illustration using paper collage, directly transferring the aesthetics of her abstract art into the children's book. Her works are held in major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.