From collection Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz 7
This image shows a painted portrait of Russian-American Modernist painter Abraham Walkowitz by Isik Rubin. Above the figure the Rubin has hand written "This is Abraham Walkowitz on March 22, 1943."
It is one in 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... ."
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LB2017.19.17865
