Abraham Walkowitz Portrait by Waldo Peirce

Abraham Walkowitz Portrait by Waldo Peirce

This image shows a portrait of the Russian-American Modernist painter Abraham Walkowitz, painted by the noted American artist Waldo Peirce (1884-1970).

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... ."