Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz 4

Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz 4

This image shows a painting of the subject, Russian-American Modernist painter Abraham Walkowitz, being flashed by a burlesque dancer.

It is one of a series of several images taken by Ruohomaa 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... ."