American Monotypes from the Baker/Pisano Collection | Page 70

Abraham Walkowitz (American, b. Russia, 1880-1965)
Street Scene, Anticoli Corrado, 1907

Color monotype and oil, 22 x 30 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.257

Abraham Walkowitz received a classic art education studying
at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the
Académie Julian in Paris. It was in Paris that he took up the art
of monotype making. From 1906 to 1910, Walkowitz produced
hundreds of monotypes, some monochromatic and others very
colorful. After his studies in Paris, Walkowitz traveled to
Holland and Italy where he lived briefly in Anticoli Corrado, a
small hilltop municipality located twenty-five miles northeast
of Rome. The town’s young inhabitants were often used as
models for artists living and working in Rome. Anticoli
Corrado, the subject of this monotype, became a destination
and home to scores of artists in the early decades of the
twentieth century. Walkowitz is considered one of the major and
earliest exponents of European Modernism in America, and
exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show and in early exhibitio