Anna Walinska (September 8, 1906 – December 19, 1997) was an American painter. She is known for her colorful works of the Modernist period, collages done with handmade Burmese Shan paper, and a large body of works in various media on the theme of the Holocaust. Works by Walinska are included in numerous public collections, most notably the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,[2] the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the Denver Art Museum, The Jewish Museum in New York, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art[3] at Cornell, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University,[4] the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, and Yad Vashem. Walinska's scrapbooks of the Guild Art Gallery, along with sketchbooks and journals on world travel are included in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.[5]
- ^ "Portrait of Arshile Gorky by Anna Walinska / American Art". Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ "Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Search Results". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ "Collections | Johnson Museum of Art". emuseum.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ Zimmer, William (2002-09-15). "ART REVIEW; How Rutgers Women's Collection Grows". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Anna Walinska papers, 1925–1981 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-05.