Sculptor Michael Gitlin emigrated with his family from South Africa to Israel as a child and has lived in New York City since 1970. Gitlin is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2005) and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (1991). His work is found in such collections as the Detroit Institute of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Jewish Museum.
In the interwar period, Liebermann’s portraits were highly sought after by the wealthy. He also produced many self-portraits. This one, painted when he was in his seventies, portrays him as a self…
The Dutch Sewing School is from a period in Max Liebermann’s career when Dutch peasants were a common subject in his work. The sewing school seen here was in an orphanage in Amsterdam. While he…
These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as…