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New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
Percival Goodman won the commission to design the building for Congregation B’nai Israel after speaking at a two-day symposium organized in 1947 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to…
Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
A book in my hand. The steam
Of the radiator on my brows.
There’s a light rain outside.
I’m sleepy. I almost drift off.
I’m sleepy. People speaking,
As through a canvas, monotone.
A young man…
The Hand of Man appeared in the first issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. Its title alludes both to the transformation of the natural world by humans and the capacity of humans to create…
Late in his career, Guston turned from abstract expressionism to figurative art, creating iconoclastic, allegorical paintings. Moon is a combination of still-life, self-portrait, and landscape. In the…
Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…
For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…