Houses at a Street Corner
c. 1930
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 22.5 x 38.4 cm (8 7/8 x 15 1/8 in.) sheet: 31.5 x 46.2 cm (12 3/8 x 18 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.202
Art Historical Context
Abraham Walkowitz's *Houses at a Street Corner* (c. 1930) invites visitors to the National Gallery of Art to explore the rhythmic geometry of urban life through the lens of early 20th-century modernism. This lithograph in black ink on wove paper, with an image size of 22.5 x 38.4 cm (8 7/8 x 15 1/8 in.), captures the angular forms of houses meeting at a street corner, evoking the bustling energy of American cityscapes during the interwar period. Walkowitz, a Lithuanian-born artist active in New York, was renowned for his fluid, expressive lines influenced by modernist movements like Synchromi...
About the Artist
Abraham Walkowitz
Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965) was a Russian-born American artist who became one of the pioneering figures of modernist abstraction in the United States during the early twentieth century. Born in Tyumen, Siberia, he emigrated to New York as a child and later studied at the National Academy of Design. A transformative period in Paris around 1906–1907 exposed him to the Fauves, Cézanne, and the emer...