Cityscape
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 20.5 x 12.7 cm (8 1/16 x 5 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Prospero Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
Accession Number
1994.45.2
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...