Anna Walinska was the daughter of labor leaderOssip Walinsky and sculptor- poet-activist Rosa Newman. In 1914, the family moved to New York. Walinska's work was included in the American Artists' Congress first annual membership exhibition in 1937. Subsequent group shows in her early years included: Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942; Paintings of the Year, 1946, National Academy of Design; Recent Drawings USA, Museum of Modern Art, 1956; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1957; and numerous exhibitions organized by the Ameri- can Federation ofModern Painters &Sculptors and the National Association of Wom- en Artists. Walinska appeared in the Yiddish Theatre, performed with a Flamenco dance troupe, and served as Assistant Creative Director of the Contemporary Art Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair. The people and places that comprised the story ofher life - her family, the painters, musicians, dancers, and political figures - became part of the fabric of Walinska's paintings, both figurative and abstract. Her portraits of prominent artists ofthe New York School are found in ma- jor museum collections - including those of Gorky in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Johnson Museum at Cornell, drawings of Mark Rothko in the National Portrait Gallery and theMagnes Museum in Berkeley, and portraits of Louise Nevelson in both the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Magnes.