Improvisations of New York
1914
Abraham Walkowitz
American, born Russia, 1878-1965
American Art
Executed at a time when Abraham Walkowitz was experimenting with modernist abstraction, Improvisations of New York captures the frenetic energy of the city through the dynamic handling of the ink. Angled and squiggled lines evoke the vertical thrust of skyscrapers soaring above the crowded street, suggested by a denser concentration of strokes at the bottom of the composition.
- Maker/Artist
- Walkowitz, Abraham
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Ink on cream, thin, smooth wove paper mounted to paper.
- Dimensions
- Sheet (drawing): 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (26.7 x 18.4 cm) Sheet (backing paper): 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (27.3 x 19.1 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 1996.157.31
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. Carl L. Selden
- Exhibitions
- Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, Curator's Choice: American Artists of the Alfred Stieglitz Circle
- Rights Statement
- Orphaned work
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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