Graham Shay 1857 presents Calligraphy of Line: The Drawings of Anna Walinska (1906-1997), which brings together a dynamic selection of the daring artist’s works on paper from the 1920s and 1950s. The show corresponds with the 2023 edition of Master Drawings New York, and will be on view from January 20 through February 24, 2023. At a time when women were expected to marry young and devote themselves to raising children, Walinska instead dedicated her life to the arts, unabashedly experimenting with different mediums and styles throughout her career. She spent time in Paris learning from the avant-garde, opened an art gallery in Manhattan where she gave Arshile Gorky his first solo show in New York, exhibited with the New York School, painted with Burmese artists en plein air, and traveled solo across Asia into Europe.
