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Accession #	39.655
Artist	Abraham Walkowitz
Title	Abstraction
Date	1912
Medium	Graphite on medium, cream, moderately textured, laid paper
Dimensions	Sheet: 19 x 12 5/8 in. (48.3 x 32.1 cm)
Marks	Round stamp embossed at upper right: "STRATHMORE / PAPER" around thistle
Signed	Signed in ink, lower right: "A. WALKOWITZ 1912"
Credit Line	Gift of the artist
Location	American Identities: Everyday Life / A Nation Divided

Curatorial Remarks: Abstraction evokes the entangled forms of two figures in an embrace using a Cubist language of faceted geometric shapes and patterned hatchings. Abraham Walkowitz probably took his inspiration from a drawing by Pablo Picasso that was exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz’s progressive 291 gallery in New York. Like many modernists, Walkowitz used the human figure as a vehicle for aesthetic experimentation.