ANNA WALINSKA After Tintoretto: Worship of the Golden Calf.
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 1965. 480x610 mm; 18 7/8x24 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right recto and titled in pencil, verso.
Ex-collection the estate of the artist, by descent to current owner; private collection, New York.
Walinska (1906-1997) was born in London to a family of activists; her father was a labor leader and her mother was a sculptor, poet and activist. Her family moved to Brooklyn in 1914 and she grew up in a home surrounded by the Russian intelligentsia in New York. At age 12 she began her artistic studies at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. From 1926-30, she lived in Paris, studying art and exhibiting at the Salon des Independents. She worked as an exhibit curator for the Federal Art Project and founded the Guild Art Gallery, New York, giving Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) his first solo show. Walinska is known for her colorful, semi-abstract works of art, many of which were influenced by her travels around the world, which included time spent in Burma.
