Air Raid Shelter

Head of a Young Jew, Natan Altman’s most famous sculpture, is an expression of his desire to set a new, modern course for Jewish art. The asymmetrical sculpture, a combination of bronze, copper, and…

Boy Holding a Ball is painted in the fauvist style for which Béla Czóbel was best known. It features the bright colors, flat paint areas, and bold outlines that characterize his early work. Czóbel…

Yizkor: Tsum ondenk fun di gefalene vekhter un arbeyter in erets-yisroel (Yizkor: In Memory of the Fallen Watchmen and Workers in the Land of Israel) commemorates fallen Jewish guards and workers who…

The 1910s were a time of experimentation for Man Ray. Inspired by the paintings of European modernists at the Armory Show in New York in 1913, he began painting in an abstract style, one that…

In 1903, the paintings of Abel Pann had helped draw attention and international outrage to the Kishinev pogrom. Pann again used his art to document the devastation of Jewish communities in Eastern…

Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…