From collection Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
Painter Abraham Walkowitz with Portraits of Himself 5
This image shows the Russan-American Modernist painter Abraham Walkowitz seated in front of two portraits of himself. He sits at a table and leafs through a publication of photos, substantially mirroring his pose in the portrait just behind him. It is one of several images taken of Walkowitz portraits, some showing the subject himself, posing with the paintings.
Kosti was likely assigned the Walkowitz series in 1944 when the Brooklyn Museum presented the show "One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz", which was written up by Time Magazine in an article entitled "Art: Walkowitz X 130" (Feb. 21, 1944). It described Walkowitz' exhibit as an "...unusual one-man show...--130 portraits of himself by 109 U.S. artists... ."
