ABEL GEORGE WARSHAWSKY
(American, 1883-1962)
A SUNLIT LANE
Oil on Board
8 ½ x 10 ½ Inches
Signed Lower Left ‘A.G. Warshawsky’

This exceptional American Post-Impressionist painter was born in Sharon, PA and graduated from Cleveland’s Art Institute. He won a scholarship to the Art Students’ League in New York where he studied with Winslow Homer. He then moved to Paris where he furthered his studies at the Academie Julian. Warshawsky spent the next thirty years in France, achieving both financial success and artistic renown. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his services to art and his work is now found in the permanent collections of important museums throughout the world, including the Petit Palais and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris and the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago in the United States. This lyrical example of Warshawsky’s work, probably painted on one of his trips to Provence, dates to circa 1915.

Reference:

Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Vol. XIV, p.459; Kunstlexicon, Thieme-Becker, Vol. V, p.168; Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, Mantle Fielding, p.982; Artists in California 1786-1940, Hughes, Vol. II, p.1165; Who Was Who in American Art, Falk, Vol. III, p.3471; Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2003/4 Edition, p.2127, et al.