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Nude with Pink Towel

Creator: Abraham Walkowitz
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Walkowitz creates a powerful composition with the tightly cropped nude figure pushed up-close to the viewer and occupying half of the picture plane. Smaller figures lead the eye backward to a distant landscape. Browns and blue shapes alternate to create a simple and flat modernist composition. Provenance: Zabriskie Gallery. , Utah Museum of Fine Art, Abraham Walkowitz was an American modernist painter. Walkowitz was of Russian Jewish descent. He emigrated to the United States in his early childhood. Walkowitz worked closely with Stieglitz as well as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	oil on canvas
Condition:	Good. Excellent
Creation Date:	1920
Styles / Movements:	Modernism, Post Impressionism, Expressionism
Catalog References:	Provenance: Zabriskie Gallery. Utah Museum of Fine Art
Incollect Reference #:	309933

Dimensions

W.	30 in;	H.	25 in;
W.	76.2 cm;	H.	63.5 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.