VVFA Modern | Artists | Abel George Warshawsky (American, 1883 - 1962)
Abel Warshawsky led a successful career as an artist during his lifetime and was well known across America, and also abroad. Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in 1883, he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied at the local Art Institute with Frederick Gottwald. Warshawsky emulated his instructor in adopting an impressionistic style, and joined the general migration of artists to New York City in 1905. In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design with the famed instructors Mowbray, Loeb and Homer.
In 1908, Warshawsky expatriated to France where he enjoyed tremendous success for the next thirty years. He found the Brittany people and landscapes of Giverny compatible subjects to his lively, Impressionistic brushwork, as is exemplified in this painting. Like many of the works inspired by this area, it is of brilliant color and broken brushwork. Warshawsky had a penchant for the brilliant green used in this painting and in many of his others. Warshawsky returned to Cleveland in 1910, 1914, 1916 and 1919 to present well-received exhibitions of his colorful Impressionist work. This painting may have been one of those brought back in 1914.
Warshawsky returned to New York at the onset of World War II, when his first wife passed away. He would eventually move to Monterey, California with his second wife, Ruth, where he continued his successful career painting Impressionistic landscapes. Warshawsky died in Carmel in 1962.
Exhibited
Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1938
Reinhardt Gallery, 1938
Canajoharie Art Gallery, New York
Rorheimer Studio, Cleveland
Brooks Studio, Cleveland
Salon D'Automne, Paris
Cleveland, 1914 (solo)
National Academy of Design, 1911, 1934
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Annuals, 1912, 1914, 1916-17
Corcoran Gallery, Biennials, 1912, 1939
Membership
Nouvelle Salon, Paris
Cincinnati Art Club
Collections
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Akron Art Institute
Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Petit Palais, Paris
Minneapolis Art Institute
Art Institute of Chicago
Los Angeles Museum
Sweat Memorial Museum
Fleischer Museum, Arizona
San Diego Museum of Art
Museum of New Mexico
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Cleveland Museum of Art
In 1908, Warshawsky expatriated to France where he enjoyed tremendous success for the next thirty years. He found the Brittany people and landscapes of Giverny compatible subjects to his lively, Impressionistic brushwork, as is exemplified in this painting. Like many of the works inspired by this area, it is of brilliant color and broken brushwork. Warshawsky had a penchant for the brilliant green used in this painting and in many of his others. Warshawsky returned to Cleveland in 1910, 1914, 1916 and 1919 to present well-received exhibitions of his colorful Impressionist work. This painting may have been one of those brought back in 1914.
Warshawsky returned to New York at the onset of World War II, when his first wife passed away. He would eventually move to Monterey, California with his second wife, Ruth, where he continued his successful career painting Impressionistic landscapes. Warshawsky died in Carmel in 1962.
Exhibited
Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1938
Reinhardt Gallery, 1938
Canajoharie Art Gallery, New York
Rorheimer Studio, Cleveland
Brooks Studio, Cleveland
Salon D'Automne, Paris
Cleveland, 1914 (solo)
National Academy of Design, 1911, 1934
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Annuals, 1912, 1914, 1916-17
Corcoran Gallery, Biennials, 1912, 1939
Membership
Nouvelle Salon, Paris
Cincinnati Art Club
Collections
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Akron Art Institute
Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Petit Palais, Paris
Minneapolis Art Institute
Art Institute of Chicago
Los Angeles Museum
Sweat Memorial Museum
Fleischer Museum, Arizona
San Diego Museum of Art
Museum of New Mexico
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Cleveland Museum of Art
