Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz was born in Tyumen, Siberia and emigrated to the United States with his mother at a young age.  He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Academie Julian in Paris.  For a time, he was represented by Alfred Stieglitz in his gallery 291 Fifth Avenue, originally known as the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession.  Walkowitz, interested in European modernism and abstraction, found other artists within Stieglitz’s circle that shared his same belief, including Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin.