| Abel George Warshawsky | ||
| Birth Date: 1883 |
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| Death Date: 1962 Artist Gallery |
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| Born to Ezekiel and Ida Warshawsky were 9 children of which two, Abel and Alexander became artists. The family of Jewish Immigrants moved from Poland and came to Cleveland from Sharon, Pennsylvania in the 1892. Abel Warshawsky studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1900 to 1905, and then attended the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. In 1907 he met Winslow Homer on Prout’s Neck, Maine, then returned to Cleveland where he taught night classes at the Jewish Council for Education Alliance, a settlement house, where his students included William Zorach and Max Kalish. He moved to France living there until 1939. Warshawsky returned to the United States to California in order to avoid the devastation from the onset of WWII in Europe.
He is largely a painter known for his impressionistic scenes of life on the streets of Paris and actually spent a cumulative amount of time of 30 years in France. He mastered two styles: his own variant of French impressionism and a striking realism. His street scenes are modern, his portraits embody the spirit of Old Europe, most noted is the Brittany coast.
Warshawsky’s work can be found the Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, France.
His brother, Alexander Warshawsky (1887-1945) was also an accomplished artist.
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