Abstraction
Abraham Walkowitz
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Abstraction evokes the entangled forms of two figures in an embrace using a Cubist language of faceted geometric shapes and patterned hatchings. Abraham Walkowitz probably took his inspiration from a drawing by Pablo Picasso that was exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz’s progressive 291 gallery in New York. Like many modernists, Walkowitz used the human figure as a vehicle for aesthetic experimentation.
Caption
Abraham Walkowitz (American, born Russia, 1878–1965). Abstraction, 1912. Graphite on medium, cream, moderately textured, laid paper, Sheet: 19 x 12 5/8 in. (48.3 x 32.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 39.655. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Abstraction
Date
1912
Medium
Graphite on medium, cream, moderately textured, laid paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 x 12 5/8 in. (48.3 x 32.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed in ink, lower right: "A. WALKOWITZ 1912"
Markings
Round stamp embossed at upper right: "STRATHMORE / PAPER" around thistle
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Accession Number
39.655
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