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Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Oil on canvas, c. 1940's
Signed upper right "A.G. Warshawsky" (see photo)
According to the daughter-in-law of the artist, this painting depicts the artist's wife, Ruth (Tate) Warsahawsky, a noted actress. Ruth Warshawsky was born on 13 October 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Lou Grant (1977), The Waltons (1972) and Truck Turner (1974). She died on 1 February 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Courtesy IMDb. The artist's paper are located in the Archives of American Art in Washington DC
This painting was most probably painted while the artist lived in Carmel California where he met and married Ruth his second wife.
Condition: Excellent, small repaired area along one edge.
Canvas size: 24 xx 20 inches
The oil on canvas is unframed. It will require a frame.
"Born to a family of Polish immigrants in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Abel Warshawsky moved with his parents to Cleveland in the early 1890s. He studied with Louis Rorimer and Frederick Gottwald at the Cleveland School of Art, 1900–05. After graduating, he attended the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. In the summer of 1907 he met Winslow Homer while painting in Prout’s Neck, Maine. Warshawsky returned to Cleveland that fall and taught night classes at the Jewish Council for Education Alliance, a settlement house, where his students included William Zorach and Max Kalish. The following year, Warshawsky received funds from Rorimer to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. From 1908 to 1910, he painted outdoor, impressionist studies in Paris and Brittany. When Warshawsky returned to Cleveland in the fall of 1910, he exhibited his new paintings at Rorimer’ s studio, in the Cleveland “secessionists” exhibitions held at the Rowfant Club (1912), and at the Korner & Wood Galleries (1912). He traveled to Paris in the spring of 1911, where he associated with Zorach and Hugo Robus. Warshawsky returned briefly to Cleveland and exhibited at the Gage Galleries in December 1913. He exhibited in the annuals of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1914–17) and was featured in a solo exhibition at the Cleveland School of Art (1916). He spent 24 years living in France but returned frequently to exhibit and visit his family in Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art organized a solo exhibition of his paintings (1920). In the 1930s he exhibited in Washington, D.C., and New York. In 1939, forced by World War II to leave France, Warshawsky returned to the United States and settled in Monterey, California." Courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art
Abel Warshawsky (1883 – 1962)
A Cleveland Impressionist landscape painter, Abel Warshawsky left Cleveland for New York in 1905 and then spent some years in Paris as an expatriate. In 1910, he returned to Cleveland where he taught art with William Sommer and exhibited paintings continuously through the 1940s.
He was born on December 28, 1883, in Sharon, Pennsylvania, though he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied with Louis Rorimer at the Cleveland Art Institute, with additional work at the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design, the latter two institutions in New York City, where Warshawsky went in 1905. The artist traveled to Paris in 1908, where he met Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Signac and Auguste Renoir, as well as American artists Winslow Homer, Leon Kroll, Hugo Robus and William Zorach. Though he returned to Cleveland in 1910, where he was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club and taught with William Sommer, he maintained a studio in Paris for thirty years, and was quite active in the art world there. He traveled often through France and Italy, returning on a yearly basis to the United States to sell his work, exhibiting from the 1910s to the 1950s.
With the death of his first wife, and war threatening in the 1930s, Warshawsky left Europe, building a studio in Monterrey, California, teaching classes, painting portraits, and figures against the backdrop of the Northern California coastline. Warshawsky, a member and president of the Carmel Art Association, was a painting partner and friend of California artist Sidney Sargent Freeman.
Warshawsky painted portraits of John W. (Jack) Raper, 1870-1950, a columnist for “The Cleveland Press” in 1940, and his brother David, 1893-1989, in 1944 in Taxco, Mexico, which are in the collection of the City Club of Cleveland. The latter was a gift to the collection by the sitter’s son and his wife, David and Lee Warshawsky. Abel Warshawsky’s younger brother, Alexander L. Warshawsky, 1887-1945, was also a painter.
Abel Warshawsky has five paintings in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as work in the Minneapolis Art Institute, Minnesota; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; and the Luxembourg Museum, Paris, France.
The 1920 portrait of his wife, titled “Paris Unconquered,” is set against a background vista of that city. The painting served as the frontispiece of his book of the same title, published in 1957. “Memories of an American Impressionist”, a book about Abel G. Warshawsky, edited by Ben L. Bassham, was published by Kent State University Press, in 1980. Nancy Dustin Wall Moure’s article, “Abel Warshawsky,” appeared in Art of California, in September 1990. His work was part of the exhibition, in 2002, “The Many Faces of Cleveland: A Century of Portraiture”, at the Cleveland Artists Foundation.
Abel Warshawsky died in 1962.
His papers from 1930-1960 are in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. They include a manuscript of the artist’s unpublished autobiography, “My Brush With Life,” as well as typescripts of two versions of Warshawksy’s autobiography, “The Autobiography,” and “Adventures with Color and Brush,” which is a revision of the former, ending in 1941. Letters to his second wife, Ruth; six albums of photographs of artwork; sketchbooks and miscellaneous other materials are also included." Courtesy AskArt
- Creator:Abel Warshawsky (1883 - 1962, American)
- Creation Year:1940's
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Condition:Repaired area along the right edge.
- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
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