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This is one of only four known self-portraits by Camille Pissarro. It was painted around the time that Pissarro and other rebellious artists broke from the traditional art establishment by forming…
Édouard Moyse’s paintings of Jewish religious life earned him the nickname “the painter of rabbis.” His paintings often depict an idealized Judaism not situated in a specific place or time. The…
Years ago, Sujo wrote that the artist is “history’s caretaker,” and that he wished to show “the diversity of drawing as a record of lived experience.” Much of his artistic career has been devoted to…
Chaim Soutine’s self-portrait is both an homage to art history and a critique of it. There was a long tradition of artists painting themselves facing an easel, holding a palette and paint brushes. But…
The Book of Esther recounts the story of the rescue of the Jews of Persia from the machinations of the evil vizier Haman, who sought to annihilate them. Thanks to the bravery and cleverness of the…
The Canal Street Market, built in 1829, was the largest and most popular market in Cincinnati, where artist Henry Mosler’s family settled after immigrating from Germany, when he was eight years old…
Borkovsky has said that he prefers to think of his work in terms of “cycles” rather than “series.” One group of artworks from the 1980s and 1990s, from which this work is drawn, is sometimes called…
