Tree
Abraham Walkowitz
c. 1903
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.9 x 17.5 cm (5 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 20.5 x 24.1 cm (8 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.209
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...