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The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective that Walter Rosenblum joined in 1937, favored documenting everyday life over newsworthy events. The Lower East Side, with its crowded…
Though better known for his political cartoons, Gropper was also an acclaimed painter. This painting was probably inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and its title, Minorities, suggests that the…
An expression of grief and an elegy to the death and destruction that war brings, this painting dates to the start of World War II, when Feibusch anticipated the coming devastation, drawing on his own…
Levine was a figurative painter known for his political and social commentaries about economic inequality, capitalism, and political power. He painted in a distinctive cartoonish style in which people…
This watercolor sketch of uprooted Jews arriving in the Warsaw Ghetto was one of many artworks Rynecki made while incarcerated there. Before the war, many of his paintings documented the vibrancy of…
Chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory Administration, Schweig is considered the first artistic photographer of landscapes and archaeological sites in Mandate-era…
Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…
This poster in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the October revolution of 1917 in Russia calls on all who seek peace, progress, and socialism to support the “first workers’ state,” the Soviet…
The Photo League was notable for the large number of women who participated in it; about one-third of its members were women. Vivian Cherry’s work was influential in shaping the style and iconography…
This detail appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The two Bes figures on the lower left are unrelated to the lyre player in the upper right. Bes was a minor…
