| Abraham Walkowitz | ||
| Birth Date: March 28, 1878 |
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| Death Date: January 27, 1965 Artist Gallery |
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| Abraham Walkowitz was born March 28, 1880 in Siberia, Russia. His family settled in New York when Abraham was a small child, eventually he enrolled at the National Academy of Design.
In 1906 after having exhibited at the Educational Alliance where he was an instructor and at the National Academy of Design he embarked for France to study at the Academie Julie in Paris.
Back to New York a few years later he exhibited at the First Modern exhibition at the Haas Gallery and in 1913 was one of the Exhibitors at the memorable Armory Show that made history in American Art.
The passion of Walkowitz’s life was Isadora Duncan; he made more than 5,000 watercolors and drawings of her in which he succeeded in capturing the expression of the movements of her dance and moods of her soul. In his paintings he shows a poetic and sympathetic feeling for his early subjects – the family groups, the people in the Ghetto, the fishermen which are documents of an era, documents of the difficult life of the ordinary man.
Oscar Bluemner in the Stieglitz magazine “Camera Walk” in 1913 said the following of Walkowitz: “He is Tolstoian in his affection for humanity for the laboring, sorrowing, struggling millions which throng the East Side, or frolic in parks and on the seashore. Amidst such he absorbs and afterwards records his impressions. Not in naturalistic-academic pictures, for he is the living antithesis of the academic, rather he proceeds in a reconstructive way to re-create”.
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