American artist Allan Wexler is known for objects, buildings, and environments that blur the borderline between architecture and sculpture. He has been awarded several public commissions. Among his many awards is the 2004/2005 Rome Prize Fellowship in Design. Wexler is on the faculty of Parsons, the New School for Design, in New York.
This brass Hanukkah lamp is thought to have been used in the First Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel, which opened in New York in 1730 and was located on present-day South William…
Portrait of a Girl with a Red Belt is one of many portrait miniatures that Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino painted. He was a court painter in Dresden who painted portraits of members of the royal…