New York
Medium
brush and ink, wash, and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 33.02 × 17.46 cm (13 × 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.56 × 19.37 cm (14 × 7 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2016.23.23
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...