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1940 · Lithograph
Comp. 9 3/4 x 16 1/8" (24.0 x 40.9 cm) Sheet 13 1/4 x 18 1/4" (33.6 x 46.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Abraham Walkowitz
?–1965
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115
Works in Collection
118
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10
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973–1974
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Portraits from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947�1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Abraham Walkowitz was an American painter and sculptor whose modernist abstractions, developed in the early twentieth century, synthesized Cubist and Futurist influences with a distinctly American sensibility. Working primarily in oil and bronze, he created dynamic compositions of fragmented forms and interpenetrating planes that engaged with the visual vocabulary of European avant-gardes while maintaining an independent formal logic. Based in New York, Walkowitz remained a significant figure in American modernism throughout his career, contributing to the development of abstraction in the United States during a formative period.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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