Abraham Walkowitz
American painter and printmaker, 1878–1965
SchoolAmerican Modernism
BiographyWalkowitz was born in Siberia and emigrated to the United States in 1889. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met Picasso, Matisse, and Gertrude and Leo Stein, the American collectors of European modern art. In 1911 Walkowitz met Alfred Stieglitz through the painter Marsden Hartley and became a fixture in his "291" Gallery. Between 1912 and 1917, Walkowitz executed his most avant-garde works, influenced in part by the works of Kandinsky and other non-objective artists in the Armory Show of 1913. After meeting her in 1906, Walkowitz made hundreds of drawings based on the modern dancer Isadora Duncan.Person TypeIndividual
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American painter, sculptor, 1901–1980
American painter, printmaker, sculptor, 1885–1973
American artist, dancer, and poet, 1874–1966
Ukrainian painter and writer, 1882–1967, active in the United States
French painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1884–1974
American painter and printmaker, 1907–1981
English painter and artists' model, 1844–1927
