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Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

American, 1878-1965

Abraham Walkowitz is perhaps best known for his watercolor studies of Isadora Duncan and the dance. However, Walkowitz laid claim to being the first to exhibit truly modernist paintings in the United States. After 1909, he became an intimate of Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery, and while there became a participant in the debate over modern art in America. Walkowitz was an outspoken proponent of the continuous experimentation in the arts, which was his definition of modernism. As an artist, Walkowitz embodied the changing role of the modernist painter in the United States, as modernism moved from an avant-garde protest against established modes to become an accepted style and tradition. 

Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian born, turn-of-the-century immigrant to the United States, who grew up in New York's Lower East Side. He first studied art at the Educational Alliance, the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. In 1906, he journeyed to Europe where he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. Upon his return to the United States in 1907, he became a fully-fledged convert to modernism, and his first exhibit, at the Haas Gallery in that year, brought him a measure of notoriety as well as the attention of Stieglitz and other pioneers of non-objective art. In subsequent years, he became one of the most exhibited painters shown at the 291 Gallery, a fact which was also reflected in the pages of Stieglitz's polemical journal of modernism, camera work. As a result of this early attention, by the time of the Armory Show of 1913, to which Walkowitz contributed several paintings, his work was widely known to both fellow modernists as well as their opponents. 

Walkowitz was clearly part of the new vocabulary of American art and criticism. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the first-generation modernists lost their revolutionary cast, and as American realism gained in favor, Walkowitz continued his experiments with form and line, especially in his series of Duncan studies. Although his paintings received less critical attention than they once had, Walkowitz was clearly one of the grand old folk of American modernism. During the depression, Walkowitz was politically active on behalf of unemployed artists supporting various new-deal initiatives in the arts. In the 1940s, Walkowitz gained national attention when he explored the varieties of the modernist vision in the form of an exhibit of 100 portraits of him by 100 artists. The result was widely discussed and was featured in Life magazine in 1944. 

In 1945, Walkowitz traveled to Kansas, where he painted landscapes made up largely of strip mines and barns. This was his last venture in active painting — by 1946, glaucoma, which led to his eventual blindness, began to impair his vision and limit his ability to work. Walkowitz then turned to the preparation of a series of volumes of his drawings, designed to illustrate the development of modernism in the 20th century, and in so doing, established his role as a pioneer American modernist.

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Artist: Abraham Walkowitz
Abstraction
Abstraction

Abstraction

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Untitled Abstraction Pen and ink on paper, 1932 Signed and dated in ink lower center Condition: Excellent Sheet/Image size: 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches Frame size: 16 1/2 x 12 1/2" Provena...

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1930s Abstract Geometric Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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'Unfolding' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing
'Unfolding' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

'Unfolding' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Unfolding), pen and ink over pencil, on cream wove paper, c. 1920. Signed in ink, bottom center. A fine, spontaneous, figurative abstraction of Isadora D...

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1920s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

'Turning' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing
'Turning' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

'Turning' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Turning), pen and ink, on cream wove paper, c. 1920. Signed in ink, bottom center. A fine, spontaneous, figurative abstraction of Isadora Duncan dancing,...

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1920s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Ink

'Leaping' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing
'Leaping' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

'Leaping' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Leaping), pen and ink, on cream wove paper, c. 1920. Signed in ink, bottom center. A fine, spontaneous, figurative abstraction of Isadora Duncan dancing,...

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1920s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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'Rising' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing
'Rising' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

'Rising' — Isadora Duncan, 1920 Signed Pen & Ink Drawing

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Leaping), pen and ink over pencil, on cream wove paper, c. 1920. Signed in ink, bottom center. A fine, spontaneous, figurative abstraction of Isadora Dun...

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1920s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Abstraction
Abstraction

Abstraction

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Signed and dated in ink lower center Provenance: Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.

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1930s Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Isadora Duncan Graphite with grey wash on paper mounted to cardstock Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo) Provenance: Charlotte Bergman, f...

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"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3, " Watercolor and Ink signed by Abraham Walkowitz
"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3, " Watercolor and Ink signed by Abraham Walkowitz

"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3, " Watercolor and Ink signed by Abraham Walkowitz

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3" is an original ink and watercolor piece on cream paper by Abraham Walkowitz. The artist signed the piece in the lower center. The drawing depicts Isadora ...

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Early American modernist work by Abraham Walkowitz
Early American modernist work by Abraham Walkowitz

Early American modernist work by Abraham Walkowitz

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Located in Colfax, CA

Early American modernist work on paper by Abraham Walkowitz. Abraham Walkowitz, (1878-1965), was born in Siberia to Jewish parents. He immigrant to the United States around 1900 wit...

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"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia
"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia

"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Wellesley, MA

Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the le...

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1930s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia
"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia

"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Wellesley, MA

Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the le...

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1930s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia
"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia

"Abstraction" American Modernist Geometric Pen/ Ink/Wash/Paper Black White Sepia

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Wellesley, MA

Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the le...

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1930s American Modern Abraham Walkowitz Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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"Isadora Duncan (Blue), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz
"Isadora Duncan (Blue), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz

"Isadora Duncan (Blue), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Isadora Duncan (Blue)" is an original mixed media drawing created by Abraham Walkowitz. It is made with pen & ink, graphite, and watercolor piece on cream paper. The artist sign...

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Woman Bathing #3   Abraham Walkowitz    Nude watercolor Circa 1920s
Woman Bathing #3   Abraham Walkowitz    Nude watercolor Circa 1920s

Woman Bathing #3 Abraham Walkowitz Nude watercolor Circa 1920s

By Abraham Walkowitz

Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Signed lower left Provenance American Heritage Gallery, Inc., New York Private collection This work can be viewed at our New York City showroom by appointment.

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A Sailing Ship at the Port
A Sailing Ship at the Port

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