Abel warshawsky biography

Abel Warshawsky (1883 – 1962)

A Cleveland Impressionist landscape painter, Abel Warshawsky left Cleveland for New York in 1905 and then spent some years in Paris as an expatriate.

In 1910, he returned to Cleveland where he taught art with William Sommer and exhibited paintings continuously through the 1940s.

He was born on December 28, 1883, in Sharon, Pennsylvania, though he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.

He studied with Louis Rorimer at the Cleveland Art Institute, with additional work at the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design, the latter two institutions in New York City, where Warshawsky went in 1905.

The artist traveled to Paris in 1908, where he met Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Signac and Auguste Renoir, as well as American artists Winslow Homer, Leon Kroll, Hugo Robus and William Zorach. Though he returned to Cleveland in 1910, where he was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club and taught with William Sommer, he maintained a studio in Paris for thirty years