Isadora Duncan
c. 1930s
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pen and black ink with graphite on wove paper inlaid to wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 35.24 × 21.75 cm (13 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.) support: 47.63 × 34.77 cm (18 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.19.3440
Art Historical Context
Abraham Walkowitz's *Isadora Duncan* (c. 1930s) captures the essence of one of the 20th century's most revolutionary dancers in a delicate yet dynamic drawing. Rendered in pen and black ink with on wove paper, intimate work measures about 13 7/8 × 8 9/16 inches and now resides in the National Gallery of Art part of the Corcor Collection (Gift of Olgashhorn). Walkowitz, a Russian-born American modernist, was mesmerized by Duncan's free-spirited performances, producing over 5,000 sketches of her between 1908 and her tragic death in 1927. Though dated to the 1930s, this piece likely draws from me...
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...