You may also like
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland)
When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…
Untitled
Untitled is from Lee Krasner’s Little Images series from the late 1940s, which the artist painted on small canvases on a table in her bedroom, soon after she and her husband Jackson Pollock moved to…
Sculpture of Ben-Gurion
By the time she created this statue of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, Chana Orloff had moved away from the cubist style she favored early in her career to a more…
Orchestra
Mané-Katz may have painted this picture of a traditional Jewish klezmer band from memory, from his childhood in the Russian Empire. By the late 1940s, his previously dark palette had begun to shift to…
Chair with Red Matter
Chair with Red Matter was painted at a time when Henryk Berlewi was producing figurative art: portraits and still lives inspired by the work of seventeenth-century French artists. By 1957, he had…
Femmes marocaines
When this ostensibly quiet scene was photographed, Morocco was in the throes of a struggle for independence against its French occupiers. The uprising was becoming increasingly violent, with riots…