Abraham Walkowitz (1878-1965) Important Abstract Oil

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Abraham Walkowitz This Walkowitz abstract oil on canvas is in great condition. It measures 18" x 23". The painting is signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner.The original frame is also in good condition. An early modernist painter known for abstract figurative works, especially in watercolor, Abraham Walkowitz was born in Siberia where his father, a lay rabbi and cantor, died while ministering in China to Jewish soldiers who had been conscripted into the Russian army. Fearful of persecution and the possibility of her son being drafted into the Czar's army when he came of age, Walkowitz's mother decided to emigrate with her children to the United States. En route across Europe, one of her three daughters died. The remaining family traveled steerage for twenty days across the Atlantic, finally settling in the Jewish ghetto of New York City where mother and son worked long hours at a newspaper stand to support the family. As a youth, Walkowitz studied the violin and drew continuously in chalk on any surface he could find. His formal art training began at age fourteen at the Artist's Institute and continued at the National Academy of Design. His studies in life drawing, etching and painting, with concurrent study of anatomy at a Fifth Avenue hospital, resulted in precise, detailed renderings. He made drawings of ghetto read more

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