Items Similar to "Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric

Abraham Walkowitz - "Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric

Frederick Conway - Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 4

Abraham Walkowitz
"Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric
1932

About the Item

Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the leaders of the avant-garde, as well as famed dancer Isadora Duncan in Rodin’s studio. The meeting was electric. Isadora became the subject of many now famous watercolors, whose fluid gestures drawn in pen and ink led directly to this extraordinary series of early 1930s linear abstractions discovered in the artist’s NY studio 60 years later, and first exhibited in Beth Urdang’s Boston gallery in 1993. ‘Boston Globe’ critic, Cate McQuaid, wrote of that exhibition: “The center of Urdang’s show... is a rare, recently discovered cache of small ink-wash drawings, all from 1930-33. Some have never been shown before; all are not to be missed. Although reminiscent of Walkowitz’s well-known abstractions of New York made in the teens….these highly rhythmic, strongly linear drawings are more purely nonrepresentational….they deserve to be counted among Walkowitz’s best. Although complex in form and texture, and without a specific focus, they are governed by an extremely satisfying visual cohesion. They hold an important connection to past, present, and future art. With their lively diagonals they bear a vibrant relationship to Kandinsky, and their circular forms suggest a dialogue with Walkowitz’s contemporary Arthur Dove. Most startling is the way their overallness forecasts Pollock’s biomorphic drawings and drip paintings of the late ‘40s and ‘50s.” Jackson Pollock knew Walkowitz and did visit the artist’s studio in the late 1940s, where he no doubt would have seen this series of pen and inks. Historians have considered the influence they may well have had on his thinking about overall abstraction and gesture. Upon his return from Paris in 1907 Abraham Walkowitz went on to become a protégé of Alfred Stieglitz, who welcomed him into his inner circle of early American modernists centered in Stieglitz’s famed 291 gallery where the artist had his first NY exhibition in 1912.

Creator:
Abraham Walkowitz (1878 - 1965, American)
Creation Year:
1932
Dimensions:
Height: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)Width: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)
Medium:
Ink,Pen
Movement & Style:
American Modern
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Wellesley, MA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU45631673393
View Invoice

More Ways To Browse

Black And White Geometric Painting

Miss America Vintage

Small Geometric Drawing

Small Black And White Drawing

Ink Wash Drawing

Inner Circle

Small Ink And Watercolor

Rare Pen

Paris Pen Drawing

Pen And Ink Modern Drawings

Vintage 50s Drawings

Black And White Modern Geometric Painting

Small Black And White Abstract Drawing

Famous Black And White Abstract Art

Abraham Walkowitz
"Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric
1932

About the Item

1930s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors