Although most well known for his use of color, Jawlensky was also considered a master of expressive line. In 2007, the Long Beach Museum of Art loaned a number of the Wichner Collection paintings and drawings by Jawlensky for an exhibition that explored this aspect of Jawlensky’s work, Alexej Jawlensky: Born of the Line. Had you visited Lugano, Switzerland then, you would have seen this image, Young Girl II on posters everywhere in the city advertising the exhibition.

2008-2009: "Modernism and The Wichner Collection," November 7, 2008 - August 16, 2009, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
2007 - 2008: "Alexej Jawlensky, Born of the Line," September 29, 2007 – January 6, 2008, Museo Cantonale d'Art Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
1991: "Alexej Jawlensky: From Appearance to Essence," January 17 - March 17, 1991, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1985: "The Blue Four - Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee," April 14 - May 19, 1985, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1981: "The Milton Wichner Collection: Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, Fischinger," March 22 - July 5, 1981, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
ca. 1939: Nierendorf Gallery, New York, New York

Abstract brush and ink on paper

This object has the following keywords:

• Abstract
• Abstract Heads
• Drawing
• Eyes, closed
• Female
• German art
• Head
• Ink
• Lines
• male
• Male
• Modernism
• Organic
• Paper
• Wichner Collection
• Woman

• Frame: 24 1/4 x 20 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches Dimensions: 18 3/8 x 14 15/16 in. (46.67 x 37.94 cm)

• Owner Name: Milton Wichner
  Role: art collector
  Place: Los Angeles
  Dates: n.d., December 4, 1979
  
  
• Owner Name: Galka Scheyer
  Role: art dealer
  Place: Los Angeles, California
  Dates: n.d., n.d.
  
  

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