Artist

Abraham Walkowitz (Primary)

Title

Bathers

Date

circa 1910

Century

20th century

Medium & Support

Watercolor on paper

Dimensions

sheet: 16 x 19 3/8 in. , image: 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.

Style

Modernism

Object Type

Paintings

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Accession Number

1998.04.22

Copyright

In Copyright, Rights Holder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable
© Estate of Abraham Walkowitz

Known for his colorful watercolors, both figurative and abstract, Walkowitz participated in the pivotal 1913 Armory Show exhibition in New York City and was a key member of Alfred Steiglitz’s inner circle. Bathers is possibly influenced by Paul Cezanne’s late paintings of bathers, which Walkowitz would have seen in a Paris retrospective in 1907, but his art is rooted in his own experiences of a specific time and place. As he wrote in 1916, “I am seeking to attune my art to what I feel to be the keynote of an experience. If it brings me a harmonious sensation, I then try to find the concrete elements that are likely to record the sensations in visual forms, in the medium of lines, of color shapes, of space division. When the line and color are sensitized, they seem to me alive withthe rhythm which I felt in the thing that stimulated my imagination and my expression.”

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Cindy Buckner