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Anna Walinska's Art of Remembrance

Long overlooked in the history of American modernism, Anna Walinska emerges as a powerful artist whose abstractions grappled directly with the inherited trauma of the Holocaust.

Dec 11, 2025
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The war was over; it remained on our hands like a great, unwanted corpse, and there was no place on Earth to bury it. - Simone de Beauvoir, Force of Circumstance

Anna Walinska in her studio in 1979 with her painting The Naked and the Dead. Anna Walinska papers, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, photograph by Rosina Rubin. Courtesy of Atelier Anna Walinska.
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