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For an 'adventuress' who memorialized the Holocaust in art, a long-awaited revival

JL;DR SUMMARY Anna Walinska, a Jewish artist originally from London who grew up in New York, is experiencing a revival in recognition for her impactful art depicting the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish HeritageNew YorkJewish ArtistsParisAnna WalinskaEskenazi Museum Of ArtPost War ArtRosina RubinHolocaust Paintings

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New York, United States
"Living in a heavily Jewish immigrant neighborhood in New York in the 1930s, painter Anna Walinska was surrounded by people who lost friends and family in the Holocaust."
Washington DC, United States
"Although she received recognition during her lifetime, with exhibitions at the Jewish Museum of New York, the Gres Art Gallery in D.C., and MoMA, Walinska faded from popular memory after her death."
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
"Now, her work is being revived in Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 19401970, an exhibition at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington."
London, United Kingdom
"Walinska was born in London in 1906, the second child of two Jewish immigrants and Forward contributors."
Berlin, Germany
"Walinska moved back to the United States in 1930 after her brother, who had been studying economics in Berlin, warned that the situation for Jews in Europe was becoming precarious."
Paris, France
"At the age of 19, despite disapproval from her father, Walinska forged her own way to Paris where she studied under French Cubist painter Andr Lhote and lived amongst other creatives, including musicians, artists and writer Gertrude Stein."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"Walinska with Justice William O. Douglas in front of her painting The Patriarch at the Grey Gallery in Baltimore."

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