Gigantomachy I belongs to a series of paintings Leon Golub made in the 1960s and early 1970s named for a mythological battle between Olympian gods and a race of giants. The monumentally large mural…
This illustration depicting different types of sukkahs on the holiday of Sukkot appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to…
Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…
The Dutch impressionist Isaac Lazarus Israëls was the son of the much-respected and better-known painter Josef Israëls. Displaying precocious talent, he studied in The Hague and Amsterdam. In the course of his life he traveled widely, spending extended periods in Belgium’s mining districts, Paris, London, the French Rivera, India, and the Dutch East Indies, everywhere finding subjects for his work.
Gigantomachy I belongs to a series of paintings Leon Golub made in the 1960s and early 1970s named for a mythological battle between Olympian gods and a race of giants. The monumentally large mural…
This illustration depicting different types of sukkahs on the holiday of Sukkot appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to…
Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…