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Evening in the City of London was one of several charcoal drawings that David Bomberg made during World War II when he was a firewatcher in London. The city was regularly bombed by the Germans and…
Jaffee was best known for his photographs of people and cityscapes. In this photograph of empty benches, seemingly arranged for viewing an unknown event, he saw both an enigma and an abstract…
Schwebel is best known for his paintings depicting dramatic scenes set in the streets of modern cities, such as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and New York. These tableaus often featured biblical figures or…
Marc Chagall’s newspaper vendor, whose pouch holds both Yiddish and Russian newspapers, looks worried. The sky is an alarming red, and the news is not good. The first world war has begun. Chagall…
Jules Adler’s many paintings depicting the everyday lives of the working-class in Paris and labor strikes earned him the nickname “the painter of the humble.” Les Las (The Weary) was inspired by a…
When the Dodge Brothers expanded into full-scale automobile manufacturing on a new campus in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1910, Albert Kahn designed some of the buildings in what was then a state-of-the…
Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
Architect Ignaz Reiser won a contest to design this ceremonial hall for the New Jewish Cemetery in Vienna. Construction began there in 1926. The most prominent feature of the building was its dome, an…
This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…
