On a return visit to Europe in the late 1920s, they purchased Vincent van Gogh's 1890 version of L'Arlésienne.
[2] Bakwin was a member of the Department of Pediatrics at the New York University Medical School from 1930 until her death.
With her husband, she co-authored several textbooks including the highly regarded Clinical Management of Behavior Disorders in Children (1968).
[6] In 1950, she received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for her distinguished career in pediatrics from the New York Infirmary.
In 2006 Bakwin's son Edward sold L'Arlésienne by Vincent van Gogh at Christie's in New York for $40.3 million.