One of the best-known American artists, Roy Lichtenstein created some of the most recognizable images of the pop-art movement. His comic-strip-inspired paintings appropriated elements of popular culture, repositioning them in the context of high art as a rebuke to prevailing abstract expressionist aesthetics. Lichtenstein, born and raised in New York, taught at the State University of New York at Oswego and at Rutgers University during the late 1950s and early 1960s, thereafter dedicating himself entirely to making art. Lichtenstein found commercial success throughout his long and prolific career, and his work continues to be widely collected and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
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…
The Book of Esther (also known as the Scroll [megillah] of Esther) is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example of an illustrated scroll from the Netherlands (shown here with a page of…
Seura Chaya # 1 is one of many photographs that Wilke made of her mother and herself when they were dying of cancer. The two separate series were a continuation of her use of her art to focus on…