(American, (1887-1945)

Oil on Canvas, 26 1/4 x 30 in.

Signed lower right: Xander Warshawsky

Loan Courtesy of the Western Reserve Historical Society

Cleveland born painter Alexander Warshowsky was the younger brother of noted Post- Impressionist painter Abel Warshawsky ( 1883-1962). Both brothers worked in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles. Xander studied at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York, although most of his early career was spent in France. In 1913 he was invited to submit two paintings to the Armory Show -- the first major survey of Modernist art to be held in the US. In 1914 he organized a show of modern art in Cleveland that included the work of William and Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, Max Weber and William Sommer. In the 1930s, he left Europe and moved to Los Angeles, where he died in 1945. The Cleveland Museum of Art held a memorial exhibition of his work that included landscapes, portraits and still lifes. This landscape, painted on a quite heavy canvas, is typical of the composition he produced in France.