From collection Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz 5
This image shows a portrait of Russian-American Modernist painter Walkowitz as an elderly woman holding an artist's palette and surrounded by a watery scene with fantastical, avant-garde folk figures. A tiny woman holding a child sits on his arm.
It is one of a series of several images taken by Ruohomaa of Walkowitz portraits.
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... ."
