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Though he was born and lived all his life in North America, Norman Leibovitch’s oeuvre included not only depictions of the Montreal neighborhood where he grew up and Canadian landscapes, but many…
Morris Topchevsky painted Leaflets when he was an art instructor at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, where the majority of students were Black. Here we see African Americans holding posters with…
In the early 1940s, Adolph Gottlieb created a new style of art, known as “pictographs,” which are grid-like compositions or asymmetrical arrangements of boxes. His subject matter was drawn from…
This drawing of a cow and her calf appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The cow and calf are a common motif associated with fertility and protection. Kuntillet…
Zaritsky was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a modern art of Jewish…
Steinhardt was one of the founders of a group of artists in Berlin called Die Pathetiker (The Sorrowful Ones), early practitioners of what later came to be known as expressionism. Expressionists…
Gutman was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the Bezalel School, drawing on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to…
Soyer’s informal family portrait, Dancing Lesson, has become an iconic image of the American Jewish experience, appearing on many book covers and exhibition catalogs. It was painted about thirteen…
Painting in an expressionist style, Tofel was involved in the Jewish Art Center in New York (1925–1927) that held exhibitions on Yiddish culture. He was also active in a group of American Yiddish…
This bucolic, and clearly romantic, scene of a humble home in a shtetl or village is characteristic of Pen’s style and subject matter. Best known as a painter of everyday Jewish life, he was the…
