Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz. (b/w photo)

Abraham Walkowitz (1880-1965), an early modernist painter known for abstract figurative works, especially in watercolor, was born in 1878 in Russian Siberia. After the death of his father, a lay rabbi and cantor, the Walkowitz family immigrated to the United States. Walkowitz studied in New York and Paris and exhibited at the pathbreaking New York Armory Show in 1913. Throughout his career, he made more than 5,000 drawings of the modern dancer Isadora Duncan. He also was involved in starting the People's Art Guild, the first American artists' cooperative. (Marc field 094)