Anna Walinska Paintings

ANNA WALENSKA "THE PATRIARCH" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED ON VERSO AMERICAN, DATED 1950-51 29.5 X 25.5 INCHES FRAMED 38.75 X 33.75 INCHES ANNA WALINSKA 1906 – 1997 A painter, illustrator and teacher at the Master Institute of Arts in New York City, Anna Walinska was born in London, England and settled in New York in 1914. Showing obvious art talent as a youngster, she first enrolled in the Art Students League in 1918 when she was age 12. Walinska lived on and off in Paris from 1928-1930, and studied there with Andre Lhote. She founded the Guild Art Gallery on West 57th Street in 1935, where she gave Arshile Gorky his first New York one-man show. In 1939, she served as the Assistant Creative Director of the Contemporary Art Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939. She traveled around the world in 1955, including a four month sojourn in Burma, and she taught at the Riverside Museum from 1957-1971. Major exhibitions included: solo retrospective at the Jewish Museum, 1957; solo retrospective at the Museum of Religious Art, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1979; posthumous solo exhibition at the Ghetto Museum, Theresienstadt, Czech Republic, 2000. Group exhibitions included: Salon des Independents, Paris, c. 1926-30; first annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress in 1937; Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942; Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, 1946; Recent Drawings USA, MOMA, 1956; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1957; numerous exhbit ions with the National Association of Women Artists and the Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors. Walinska's are included in numerous museum collections both here and abroad, including: The National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Jewish Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Yad Vashem. Walinska's scrapbooks of the Guild Art Gallery (see below), along with sketchbooks and journals on world travel are included in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Asia Society, NYC Portrait of U Nu, 1955: oil on canvas, 41 x 50 Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester Massachusetts Victims, 1956, oil on paper, 30-3/4 x 24-1/2 Victims, 1959, oil on paper mounted on masonite, 72 x 36 Victims in Madhouse, oil & chalk on paper, 42-1/2 x 30-1/2 Elegy, 1978, charcoal & oil on masonite board, 25-1/2 x 38 Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Portrait of Arshile Gorky, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x 35-1/2 Survivors: Exile in Landscape, 1957, oil on paper, 26 x 38-1/4 Victim: Buddha Figure, 1956, ink on paper, 58 x 34 Hyde Park Library, Long Island NY Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, charcoal on canvas, 23-1/2 x 25-1/2 Jewish Museum, NYC Moses, 1962: charcoal on heavy paper, 23 x 43 Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA Victims: Ghetto Figures in Landscape, 1957, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 (Holocaust series #24) Victims: Figures in Ghetto, 1957, oil on canvas board, 20 x 16 (Holocaust series #25) Victims: Women & Girls on Way to Gas Chamber, 1978, charcoal on paper, 42-1/2 x 30-1/2 (Holocaust series #44) Survivors: Figures Behind Barbed Wire, 1973, oil on paper, 42-12/ x 30-1/2 (Holocaust series#46) Portrait of Mark Rothko, ink on paper, 42 x 30 Portrait of Louise Nevelson, 1978, ink on paper, 42 x 30 Portrait of Moshe...

Original oil on canvas by American Anna Walinska