ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ Oil Painting Nude w Provenance

ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ (AMERICAN 1880-1965), "Nude in Central Park," oil on canvasboard, 20 x 16 inches, signed lower left, also signed on verso, Christie's label on verso. PROVENANCE: Christie's New York, Property of a Private Collector. Abraham Walkowitz was a very important artist in the history of American Modernism. His paintings have sold for more than $22,000 and his drawings for more than $5,000. Walkowitz was born in Tyumen, Siberia in 1880. He emigrated to America in 1889 with his family and settled into the Jewish Ghetto in New York City. From 1929-1965, he lived in Brooklyn. Walkowitz studied painting and print making at Cooper Union; the Educational Alliance in New York; the National Academy of Design with War, Maynard, and F.C. Jones; and the Academie Julian in Paris, France with J.P. Laurens. He was a member of the American Artists Congress; American Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists; the Society of Independent Artists (where he was Director and Vice-President); and was a founding member of the People's Art Gallery in 1915. In addition to his other works, Walkowitz is well known for his profuse amount of drawings and watercolors of the modern dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he met at Auguste Rodin's Paris studio while a student at the Academie Julian in Paris. He was also a good friend of Stieglitz and actually encouraged Stieglitz to give Georgia O'Keeffe her first show. Walkowitz exhibited widely, including at: the Haas Gallery in New York City (1908 first solo); Stieglitz Little Gallery in 1912; the seminal Armory Show in 1913; the Society of Independent Artists (1917-1939); Salons of America; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annuals in Philadelphia (1929, 1933-35); the Corcoran Gallery Biennials in Washington, D.C. (1930, 1935); Brooklyn Museum (1939 retrospective); and the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. Walkowitz's work is in major museum collections including: the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Kalamazoo Institute of Art in Michigan; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the New York Public Library; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts; the Newark Museum in New Jersey; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art in Ohio; the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Biro-Bidjan Museum in Russia; the University of Minnesota Gallery in Minneapolis; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery in New York; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington; the El Paso Museum of Art in Texas; the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York; the Florence Museum of Art and History in South Carolina; the Kresge Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California; the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Florida; the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; the Michelson Museum of Art in Marshall, Texas; the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts; the Neuberger Museum of Fine Art in Purchase, New York; the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton; the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona; the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; the Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont; the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska; Smith College Museum of Art in Northhampton, Massachusetts; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas; the University of Michigan Art Museum in Ann Arbor; the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland; the University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington; and the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie. SHIPMENT: As a courtesy to our clients, we can deliver your artwork to a local UPS Store for shipment, or you may make arrangements for pick-up. We DO NOT ship directly. ***For shipping estimates, please contact the UPS Store directly at (860) 676-0660 [refer to the ebay item number or lot number when calling]***. PAYMENT: Payment is accepted by check, money order, or paypal. Please reference the ebay item number or lot number when sending your check or paying through paypal.

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