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Self-Portrait with Candles is a rare example of a work with a Jewish theme by Lily Delissa Joseph. Here she has painted herself holding two Sabbath candles. Her head is covered, as is traditional for…
In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
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…
The first version of The Rock Drill, exhibited in 1915, was a white plaster figure sitting astride a real drill, an amalgam of man and machine. The sculptor, Jacob Epstein, originally intended it as a…
Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer’s cover design for Istoria evreiskago naroda (History of the Jewish People) features a title with dramatically stylized letters and a gold and black pattern that evokes…
Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
Wall Street is considered a seminal work in the history of photography, symbolic of a turn away from pictorialism and toward modernism. Photography would no longer seek to mimic academic painting but…
Boy Holding a Ball is painted in the fauvist style for which Béla Czóbel was best known. It features the bright colors, flat paint areas, and bold outlines that characterize his early work. Czóbel…
This photograph is one of a series of street photographs that Paul Strand took in 1916, using a camera outfitted with a false lens pointed away from what was being photographed. This enabled him to…
