American artist Al Held had his first solo exhibition as an Abstract Expressionist painter in 1952 at Gallery Eight in Paris. Known especially for hard-edge painting, in the 1960s Held was a leading exponent of the trend known as Post-Painterly Abstraction. After a period beginning in 1967 in which he painted mainly in black and white, he returned to the use of color in the late 1970s. Held was awarded a Logan Medal of the Arts (1964) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1966).
Samuel Bak’s paintings have been described as surrealist, but they also show the influence of Old Masters, such as Albrecht Dürer and Michelangelo. He himself has said, “I don't mind if people call my…
A ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This ornate ketubah from Oran, Algeria…
This pastoral painting is typical of the work of Charles Towne. His landscapes were not realistic depictions of actual places, but instead romantic views of idealized scenes. He cited seventeenth…