id: 101496 accession number: 1920.277 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.277 updated: 2025-02-08 22:57:36.933000 Washerwomen at Goyen, 1917. Abel George Warshawsky (American, 1883–1962). Oil on canvas; framed: 77.5 x 93.5 x 9 cm (30 1/2 x 36 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 64.8 x 81.3 cm (25 1/2 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Cleveland Art Association 1920.277 title: Washerwomen at Goyen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1917 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1917 current location: creditline: Gift of The Cleveland Art Association copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Abel George Warshawsky (American, 1883–1962) - artist Born to a family of Polish immigrants in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Abel Warshawsky moved with his parents to Cleveland in the early 1890s. He studied with Louis Rorimer and Frederick Gottwald at the Cleveland School of Art, 1900–05. After graduating, he attended the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. In the summer of 1907 he met Winslow Homer while painting in Prout’s Neck, Maine. Warshawsky returned to Cleveland that fall and taught night classes at the Jewish Council for Education Alliance, a settlement house, where his students included William Zorach and Max Kalish. The following year, Warshawsky received funds from Rorimer to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. From 1908 to 1910, he painted outdoor, impressionist studies in Paris and Brittany. When Warshawsky returned to Cleveland in the fall of 1910, he exhibited his new paintings at Rorimer’ s studio, in the Cleveland “secessionists” exhibitions held at the Rowfant Club (1912), and at the Korner & Wood Galleries (1912). He traveled to Paris in the spring of 1911, where he associated with Zorach and Hugo Robus. Warshawsky returned briefly to Cleveland and exhibited at the Gage Galleries in December 1913. He exhibited in the annuals of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1914–17) and was featured in a solo exhibition at the Cleveland School of Art (1916). He spent 24 years living in France but returned frequently to exhibit and visit his family in Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art organized a solo exhibition of his paintings (1920). In the 1930s he exhibited in Washington, D.C., and New York. In 1939, forced by World War II to leave France, Warshawsky returned to the United States and settled in Monterey, California. --- measurements: Framed: 77.5 x 93.5 x 9 cm (30 1/2 x 36 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 64.8 x 81.3 cm (25 1/2 x 32 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: "A. G. Warshawsky / -1917-" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Color opening date: 1971-02-01T05:00:00 Color. Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH (organizer) (February 1-May 1, 1971). title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946 opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00 Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996). title: Dancing in the Light: Masterworks from the Age of American Impressionism opening date: 2020-11-27T05:00:00 Dancing in the Light: Masterworks from the Age of American Impressionism. Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH (organizer) (November 27, 2020-March 7, 2021) https://www.cantonart.org/exhibits/dancing-light-masterworks-age-american-impressionism-november-27-2020-march-7-2021-0. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 10 (1920): 160-62.
 page number: Mentioned: p. 160 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136434 Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 57, fig 20. url: Robinson, William H. "The Age of Impressionism." In Dancing in the Light: Masterworks from the Age of American Impressionism. Chrisopher S. Duckworth, ed., 7-50. Canton, OH: Canton Museum of Art, 2020. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 22, fig. 20 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.277/1920.277_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.277/1920.277_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.277/1920.277_full.tif