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Picnic
1940 · Etching
Plate 5 x 6 15/16" (12.6 x 17.6 cm) Sheet 9 x 11 1/2" (22.9 x 29.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Abraham Walkowitz
?–1965
WA-00024059
Representation
None documented
17
Institutional Exhibitions
115
Works in Collection
118
Assets Indexed
10
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
No image
Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973–1974
No image
Portraits from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
No image
XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947�1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
No image
From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection: An Extended Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
No image
American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
No image
Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
No image
The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
No image
Isadora Duncan: Drawings, Photographs, Memorabilia
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1941–1942
No image
Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940–1941
Field Verification (6 fields)
5 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Birth yearManual Rehabilitation 2026-05-06 + Artsy+1· 95%✓
- Death yearManual Rehabilitation 2026-05-06 + Duplicate Merge· 95%✓
- NationalityManual Rehabilitation 2026-05-06 + Artsy· 95%✓
- Wikidata IdManual Rehabilitation 2026-05-06· 95%✓
- BiographyManual Rehabilitation 2026-05-06· 95%✓
- LocationArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (1)
- Manual RehabilitationTier 3 · Scraped/inferred95%
About
Why this artist matters now
Abraham Walkowitz was an American painter and sculptor whose modernist abstractions, developed in the early twentieth century, synthesized Cubist and Futurist influences with a distinctly American sensibility. Working primarily in oil and bronze, he created dynamic compositions of fragmented forms and interpenetrating planes that engaged with the visual vocabulary of European avant-gardes while maintaining an independent formal logic. Based in New York, Walkowitz remained a significant figure in American modernism throughout his career, contributing to the development of abstraction in the United States during a formative period.
Source: Manual Rehabilitation · Trust score: 95% · Updated 28d ago
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Artworks (115)
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Artwork sources (3)
115 published of 116 catalogued · 49 with image
- MoMA111 published48 img
- The Met4 published
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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