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Title:Symphony in Creation in Eight Movements
Artist:Abraham Walkowitz (American (born Russia), Tyumen 1878–1965 Brooklyn, New York)
Date:ca. 1914–16
Medium:Wax crayon and pastel on eight sheets of paper, with one cut-and-pasted strip, mounted on paper
Dimensions:Overall: 36 x 45 7/8 in. (91.4 x 116.5 cm) Each sheet: ca. 17 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (44.8 x 29.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Object Number:49.70.168
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in pencil): A. WALKOWITZ 14
the artist (to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1916–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. Anderson Galleries. "The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters," March 13–25, 1916, brochure no. 112 (as "Creation," for sale, $1,000).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Synchronism and American Color Abstraction, 1910–1925," January 24–March 26, 1978, unnumbered cat. (pl. 48).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris. "The Forum Exhibition: Selections and Additions," May 18–June 22, 1983, unnumbered cat. (p. 32).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1880–1930," October 17, 1989–January 14, 1990, extended to February 18, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p.118; as "Creation").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 212.
Sidney Janis. Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. San Francisco, 1944, p. 20, no. 11, as "Creation," 1914.
Christopher Knight. "On Native Ground: U.S. Modern." Art in America 71 (October 1983), p. 172, ill., as "Creation," 1914.
Gail Stavitsky inAmerican Pastels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 119–21, ill. pp. 118 (color), 223, dates it probably 1913–14.
Gail Levin in Gail Levin and Marianne Lorenz. Theme and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde, 1912–1950. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Dayton, Oh., 1992, p. 25, fig. 2.1.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 215, 285, no. 212, ill. (color).
Rachel Mustalish inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, p. 215.
Abraham Walkowitz (American (born Russia), Tyumen 1878–1965 Brooklyn, New York)
1900
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