Dancing Jew with Torah. * And: Three Jews (Sanctification of the New Moon)

Abraham Walkowitz (1878-1965) was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who joined the avant-garde Modernist art movement gravitating around photographer Alfred Stieglitz' 291 Gallery, where the forerunners of modern art in America gathered and where many European artists were first exhibited in the United States. He is most well-known for his portraits of dancer Isadora Duncan, and for his abstract cityscapes. The two drawings in this lot of Jewish immigrants in New York are from his early years