Thomas Johnson was an American engraver who produced illustrations for magazines in the 1870s and 1880s. He is best known for several engravings of public figures such as Emma Lazarus, George Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln, which he modeled on photographic portraits.
Jewish poets throughout Europe and the Americas created in the languages of their native tongues. From folk-song lyrics to wedding riddles and synagogue hymns, poetry, even in translation, allows us access to voices and moments, particular and collective, that we would otherwise not hear.
Still Life with a Picture of Napoleon is one of many still lifes that Dezső Czigány painted. Like many of his other compositions, it demonstrates cubist and fauvist influences. In this picture, the…
In this cubist-influenced self-portrait, the artist has painted herself reflected in a mirror, perhaps a symbol of a divided self. The upturned vessels on the table communicate a sense of upheaval…
La Ronda en el tiempo, now in the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, is considered Fanny Rabel’s most important mural. On the left, children play with toy…