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Abraham Walkowitz (American, 1878-1965)
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Abraham Walkowitz
Woman's Head 1908
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Biography |
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1878 |
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Born in Siberia, Russia |
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1883 |
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Emigrated to the USA with his mother |
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1892 |
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Studied at Cooper Union School of Art |
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1892 |
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Artist's Institute, New York, NY; Educational Alliance, the Cooper Union, New York, NY |
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1898 |
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Studied at the National Academy of Design, New York, NY |
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1906 |
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arrived in Paris to study at the Académie Julien |
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1907 |
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Returned the United States |
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1944 |
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"100 Portraits of Walkowitz by 100 Artists," Life Magazine |
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1945 |
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Traveled to Kansas; painted landscapes with barns and strip mines |
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1946 |
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Diagnosed with glaucoma |
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1963 |
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American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award |
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1965 |
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Died in Brooklyn, NY |
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1993 |
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Walkowitz Archive established at University Gallery, University of Delaware |
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Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Florence Museum of Art, Science, and History, Florence, SC
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA
Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, TX
Museum of ARt and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, Canajoharie, NY
The Columbus Museum of Art-Ohio, Columbus, OH
The Columbus Museum-Georgia, Columbus, GA
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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1959 |
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Solo exhibition, “Works: 1895-1932,” Zabriskie Gallery, NY |
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1958 |
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Group exhibition, “A Decade of American Cubist Painting, 1913-1923,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY |
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1957 |
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Group exhibition, “The City: 1900-1930,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY |
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1944 |
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“One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz,” Brooklyn Museum |
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1939 |
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“Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1900-’34,” Brooklyn Museum; solo exhibitions at the Newark Museum and the New York Public Library |
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1930 |
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‘Exhibition Commemorativ des Dessins: Isadora Duncan par A. Walkowitz,” Galerie Brummer, Paris |
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1920 |
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Exhibition at Galleries of Societe Anonyme, with Derain, Hartley, Kandinsky, Man Ray and Stella |
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1917 |
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Inaugural exhibition, Society of Independent Artists; “Interpretation of the Dances of Isadora Duncan,” Daniel Gallery, NY |
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1917 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1916 |
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Forum Show at Anderson Galleries; fourth exhibition at 291 |
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1916 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1915 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1915 |
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Third exhibition at 291 |
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1914 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1913 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1913 |
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The Armory Show, New York, NY |
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1913 |
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Exhibited several works at the Armory Show; second exhibition at 291 |
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1912 |
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First of several solo exhibitions at Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery |
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1912 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1911 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1909 |
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Stieglitz' "291 Gallery," New York, NY |
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1907 |
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First one-person exhibition, Julius Haas’s frame shop |
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Literature |
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Isadora Duncan in Her Dances. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945. |
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