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The Last Breath is one of the genre paintings depicting the lives of fishermen and their families for which Jozef Israëls was best known. In this scene, a woman is weeping over the body of her husband…
In the 1960s, Audrey Flack began to paint photorealistic pictures with social and political themes, reproducing photographs of people from all walks of life, as well as everyday objects. Farb Family…
Among Catherine da Costa’s surviving paintings is the full-length portrait of her father, Dr. Fernando Mendes (1647–1724). Mendes was a prominent Jewish physician, who attended both King Charles II…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
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 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…
Abel Pann devoted much of his artistic career to painting and drawing scenes from the Hebrew Bible. Like other Jewish artists who worked in this genre, such as Ephraim Moses Lilien and Ze’ev Raban, he…
The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family is not meant to be a portrait of a specific Jewish family but is instead an archetype painted in a style that evokes folk art and early Italian painting. The model for the…
Yosl Bergner was only twenty-one years old and living in Australia when he painted this bleak picture. Many of his paintings were drawn from memories of his childhood in Warsaw but he also portrayed…
