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Meet the Women Preserving the Legacies of Their Artist-Relatives

  • Hyperallergic
  • Hall Rockefeller
  • May 12, 2024

We owe the stories of Louise Nevelson, Tamara de Lempicka, and Anna Walinska to those behind the scenes working to preserve them.

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Rosina Rubin and The Art of Legacy

  • Gallery & Studio
  • Julia Szabo
  • Spring 2024

The mission has involved multiple moving parts … memories more than enough to fill a book or fuel a film.

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A Room of Their Own

  • American Fine Art Magazine
  • Meg Daly
  • March/April 2024

Two New York galleries team up for an exhibition commemorating the National Association of Women Artists’ 135th anniversary

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National Association of Women Artists: The 135th Anniversary

  • Graham Shay 1857 and Lincoln Glenn
  • March 28-May 31, 2024

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Mid-Century Abstraction: Paintings and Drawings, Stuart Davis to Robert Motherwell, 1930 – 1980

  • Graham Shay 1857
  • January 15-February 23, 2024

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Field Update: Studies on Jewish American Art

  • Tulane University Grant Center for the Jewish American Experience
  • Andrea Pappas
  • December 11, 2023

The forthcoming exhibition from the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University … Remembrance & Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970, will be the first exhibition to assess the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish artists in the US specifically. The checklist includes not just the expected names … but also welcomes artists who are finally getting their due: notably, Anna Walinska.

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Long-Lost Arshile Gorky Portrait of Artist Anna Walinska Turns Up in Rhode Island

  • ARTnews
  • Karen Chernick
  • July 14, 2023

A few months ago, the owner of the painting, who wishes to remain anonymous, contacted the Gorky Foundation.

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Modigliani and the Modern Portrait

  • Nassau County Museum of Art
  • July 22-November 5, 2023

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Graham Shay at the American Art Fair

  • New York City
  • May 13-May 16, 2023

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An overdue showcase for midcentury Abstract Expressionist Anna Walinska

  • The Art Newspaper
  • Karen Chernick
  • May 12, 2023

A presentation at the American Art Fair puts Walinska in context with Elaine de Kooning and others.

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Colleagues & Friends: Maria Nevelson and Rosina Rubin

  • POWarts  |  Salmagundi Club, New York City
  • March 28, 2023

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Calligraphy of Line: The Drawings of Anna Walinska

  • Art Market Magazine
  • January 2023

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Calligraphy of Line: The Drawings of Anna Walinska at Graham Shay Gallery Through March 3rd

  • GothamToGo
  • February 22, 2023

As we approach Women’s History Month, we highlight an exhibition from this year’s Master Drawings New York.

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Calligraphy of Line: The Paintings & Drawings of Anna Walinska (1906-1997)

  • Graham Shay 1857  |  Master Drawings New York
  • January 20-January 28, 2023

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Calligraphy of Line: The Paintings & Drawings of Anna Walinska (1906-1997)

  • Graham Shay 1857  |  New York City
  • January 20-March 3, 2023

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Graham Shay 1857 presents Calligraphy of Line: The Drawings of Anna Walinska (1906-1997)

  • New York
  • December 31, 2022

The exhibition, corresponding with the 2023 edition of Master Drawings New York, brings together a dynamic selection of the daring artist’s works on paper from the 1920s and 1950s.

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Unlikely Juxtapositions

  • American Fine Art Magazine
  • James D. Balestrieri
  • September/October 2022

An exhibition at the Hudson River Museum reconsiders past and present expressions of American identity through the lens of American art.

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Women to the Fore at the Hudson River Museum

  • Art Spiel
  • Etty Yaniv
  • December 11, 2020

One of the highlights of this show is Anna Walinska’s self-portrait which not only marks her first return to the walls of the Hudson River Museum in over 60 years, but also brings to light her significant role in the art world of her time.

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Women to the Fore

  • Hudson River Museum
  • September 18, 2020-January 23, 2021

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The Fascinating Story Behind a Missing Portrait by Arshile Gorky

  • Hyperallergic
  • Karen Chernick
  • June 12, 2020

The portrait is a window into the life and work of the painter and gallerist Anna Walinska, who gave Gorky his first solo exhibition in New York.

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Editors’ Picks: 20 Things Not To Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

  • Artnet News
  • Sarah Cascone
  • January 20, 2020

#14: Walinska taught at the Master Institute and exhibited at the Riverside Museum alongside such luminaries as Louise Nevelson, Milton Avery, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman, and Alice Neel.

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Visiting a Lost Art Museum Inside an UWS Art Deco Apartment Building

  • Untapped New York
  • Nicole Saraniero
  • December 27, 2019

The art on view, twenty-two years after Walinska’s passing, was made during her sixteen year stretch as an artist-in-residence at the Riverside Museum from 1955 to 1971.

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New Exhibit Honors Artist Anna Walinska in Landmark New York Building Where She Exhibited, Taught and Found her Voice as an Abstract Expressionist

  • New York
  • September 4, 2019

In conjunction with the 90th anniversary of the Master Building, former home of The Riverside Museum, Anna Walinska: Return to the Riverside will showcase works created during Walinska’s studio residency (1955-1971) at this iconic cultural New York City landmark. Curated by Michael Alicia and Jan Fort, the show will be…

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Anna Walinska: Return to the Riverside

  • The Master Gallery
  • October 25, 2019-January 24, 2020

Opening reception, by invitation, Thursday, October 24

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Editors’ Picks: 7 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

  • artnet news
  • Sarah Cascone
  • July 2, 2018

#5: An unexpected discovery might be a selection of some of the over 2,000 works on canvas and paper created by Anna Walinksa, an unsung figure of the Modernist movement.

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Featured Artist: Anna Walinska, A Woman to Revere

  • LIB Magazine
  • Kelly M. Coffey
  • May 2, 2018

I learned of an artist named Anna Walinska, a woman to be revered for her free spirit as she traveled across the world at age 19 to study art against the expectations and approval of her father

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This Gold Coast Mansion on Long Island Houses an Art Museum!

  • Untapped Cities
  • Nicole Saraniero
  • April 19, 2018

The current exhibit features work by household names of the Roaring 20’s like Picasso, Fitzgerald, and Matisse and rare pieces like those from Brooklyn raised artist Anna Walinska, in a setting that fittingly evokes images of a lavish Gatsby-esque affair.

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Nassau County Museum of Art Hits Highest Notes with ‘Anything Goes: The Jazz Age’ Exhibit

  • Going Place, Far & Near
  • Karen Rubin
  • April 3, 2018

There are so many artists – particularly women artists – who will be new for many like Anna Walinska … paintings on view in a solo gallery in the show

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Anything Goes: The Jazz Age in Art, Music & Literature

  • Nassau County Museum of Art
  • March 24-July 8, 2018

Opening reception, by invitation, Friday, March 23

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Anna Walinska’s Roaring Paintings

  • L I Pulse
  • Anna Halkidis
  • March 30, 2018

The exhibit highlights the work of ground-breaking female artist, Anna Walinska.

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Anna Walinska – Defining Modernist Women

  • Art Apply NYC
  • March 18, 2018

During a time in which women were largely absent from the art world, Walinska was an early innovator.

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Unghosted Women

  • Bay Area Reporter
  • Sara Wood
  • March 8, 2018

The exhibition’s top-liner, pioneering feminist artist Anna Walinska, was a prescient early-20th-century modernist who painted the forerunner of the pink pussy hat …

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Women in Art: Great Artists Who Just Happen to be Women

  • Chloe Gallery
  • March 1-March 31, 2018

Opening reception, by invitation, Saturday, March 10

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Anna Walinska to be Featured Artist in Nassau County Art Museum Jazz Age Exhibit Alongside Picasso, Leger, Beckmann, Stettheimer, Lachaise, and Other Influencers of the Roaring 20s in New Multimedia Show

  • New York, NY
  • February 26, 2018

Using the art, literature and music, Museum Director and Curator Charles Riley explores the masterpieces and experiments of Walinska and the groundbreaking artists In the generation that changed the history of Modernism

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Chloe Gallery Celebrates Anna Walinksa in March Exhibition, Women in Art: Great Artists Who Happen to Be Women

  • New York
  • February 8, 2018

Works by the intrepid Anna Walinska will be exhibited alongside contemporary female artists throughout Women’s History Month

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Anna Walinska’s Self-Portrait Becomes Part of The Jewish Museum’s Collection on the 60th Anniversary of Her First Solo Show at the Museum

  • New York, NY
  • September 25, 2017

Intrepid artist and art-world influencer Anna Walinska debuted twenty-five of her works in her first solo show at the Jewish Museum in 1957

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This All-Female Graffiti Shows Explores the Politics of Street Art

  • The Cut
  • Sara Nechamkin
  • July 20, 2017

Graffiti meets gallery art

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Two Early Spray Paintings by Anna Walinska Headline Graffiti Summer Vacation Exhibit at Pen + Brush

  • New York, NY
  • June 15, 2017

Venerable Art Institution Pen + Brush Showcases Walinska’s Work Alongside Female Graffiti Pioneers to Generate Dialogue About the Landscape of Art and Gender Parity

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Art + Feminism

  • Museum of Modern Art  |  New York City
  • March 11, 2017

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Denver Art Museum selects Anna Walinska’s 1956 Landscape for Permanent Collection of Women Abstract Expressionists

  • New York, NY
  • January 25, 2017

DAM Continues to Shine a Spotlight on Talented Women of the Abstract Expressionist Movement, Highlighting Anna Walinska Alongside Artists Including Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, and Jay DeFeo.

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Intrepid artist and explorer Anna Walinska is celebrated two decades after her death

  • Women in the World in association with The New York Times
  • Alli Maloney
  • March 3, 2016

Born in 1906, Walinska moved to Paris at the height of the Jazz Age, traveled the world by prop plane in the 1950’s, and painted for eight decades

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“Anna Walinska’s New York” Headlines New Exhibit “Celebrating 100 Years of Women Painters”

  • New York
  • January 28, 2016

Over 40 works showcase the breadth and depth of Anna Walinska, a prolific modernist artist inspired by New York

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Boldness in Art and Life

  • American Fine Art Magazine
  • January-February, 2016

Abstract works by pioneer female artist Anna Walinska on display

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Borne Back to the Past: Anna Walinska at Lawrence Fine Art

  • Hamptons Art Hub
  • Charles A. Riley II
  • August 20, 2015

Even before taking in the first work in this vigorously honest exhibition of painting, the biographical backstory is enchanting

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Hamptons gallery show remembers overlooked artist Anna Walinska

  • The Art Newspaper
  • Anny Shaw
  • August 14, 2015

As well as becoming a well-known portrait painter, she also founded the Guild Art Gallery in Manhattan

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An American Artist in Paris

  • Girls’ Guide to the World
  • November 14, 2014

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In Search of a Jewish Audience: New York’s Guild Art Gallery, 1935-1937

  • Journal of American Jewish History
  • Andrea Pappas
  • October 2014

Walinska recounted that during her stay in Paris, she wished to launch a gallery to bring the modern art she saw there to New York.

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Art Review: How Rutgers Women’s Collection Grows

  • The New York Times
  • William Zimmer
  • September 15, 2002

Reflecting the 1950’s and the dominance of Abstract Expressionism is Anna Walinska’s roiling “The Earth Bears Witness” (1955)

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Shared Burden

  • The Prague Post
  • August 30 – September 5, 2000

Terezin Museum highlights Holocaust works

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Jewish Museum Retrospective

  • The New York Times
  • Howard DeVries
  • September 13, 1957
  • NY Post
  • Bennett Schiff
  • September 15, 1957
  • NY Herald Tribune
  • Carlyle Burrows
  • September 22, 1957
  • Art News
  • September, 1957
  • Pictures on Exhibit
  • October, 1957

Anna Walinska is having her first one-man show in twenty-five years at The Jewish Museum

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The Middle Way in Art

  • The Guardian, Rangoon, Burma
  • Hla Shain
  • February, 1955

Although she herself is an avowed exponent of Abstractionism, Miss Walinska is full of sympathy for those of us who cannot bring themselves to break away from the conventional realistic approach

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Walinska, Forbes, Gorky and Others

  • Art News
  • Ann Sayre
  • June 6, 1936

Although she has an instinct for composition, she studies form and tonal relation with the greatest of care, and it is interesting to follow her work as it matures