Educated in architecture in Italy during the 1930s, Romanian-born Saul Steinberg became an extraordinarily popular American artist after World War II through his regularly featured drawings, cartoons, and covers for The New Yorker magazine. Steinberg’s inventive enigmatic modernism found expression in masks, drawings, collages, and watercolors that incorporated letters, text, and self-reflections. He exhibited his work in European and American galleries, in a traveling retrospective that began at the Whitney Museum in 1978 and another that opened at the Morgan Library and Museum. He also published more than a dozen compilations of his drawings, beginning with All in Line (1945) and ending with The Discovery of America (1992).
A prayer (Ha-nerot halalu anu madlikin (“These lights we burn”), usually recited after the blessings for lighting the Hanukkah candles, is inscribed on the back panel of this Hanukkah lamp from…
The Kindling of the Hanukkah Lights is one of the many works portraying Jewish family life and scenes of Jewish domestic observances by German Jewish artist Moritz Oppenheim. Though painted in the…
The focus of this photograph is the rank-and-file participants at a socialist May Day rally, rather than the politicians delivering the speeches. Members of the Photo League maintained that it was the…