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Paintings with biblical themes were among the genres for which Solomon J. Solomon was best known and which made him popular with both the public and critics in Victorian England and France. Here, he…
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…
In Exile, a column of Jews makes their way across a barren landscape that evokes the desert that the biblical Israelites wandered for forty years. But the people here are clearly East European Jews…
Calvary was not the first time Marc Chagall portrayed the crucifixion in a painting, and it would not be the last. Chagall saw the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a symbol of Jewish suffering. In this…
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…
Apokalyptische Landschaft is one of a series of cityscapes that Ludwig Meidner painted between 1912 and 1916. He was influenced by the work of the Italian Futurists and their depictions of the…
Natan Altman’s portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is his best-known work. He painted the famous poet in St. Petersburg in a cubist style, against a background of blue quartzlike and green…
The blue and white abstract shapes in The Mud Bath evoke human figures in motion against a field of red. Are they meant to be people at a public bathhouse? Or are they interpreted that way because the…
This scene in a bomb shelter during World War I is characterized by the empathy and intimacy with which many of Amy Julia Drucker’s London paintings were imbued. The children stand out amid the masses…
The 1910s were a time of experimentation for Man Ray. Inspired by the paintings of European modernists at the Armory Show in New York in 1913, he began painting in an abstract style, one that…
