Moses Soyer was a Russian-born American realist painter. After immigrating in 1912 to the United States and settling in New York, Soyer studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Ferrer Art School. A 1926 scholarship permitted Soyer to study drawing in Europe, which strengthened his commitment to figurative art. When many other New York artists began experimenting with abstract expressionism in the 1940s, Soyer continued painting in his realist style, portraying scenes of everyday life with an honest, unembellished yet elegant aesthetic. Soyer was elected to the National Academy of Design and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963 and 1966, respectively.
Love for an honored woman illuminates my mind’s eye and my imagination,
While I praise her beauty, for she comforts me in my exile.
My soul is like a lone bird and each night she greets the face of…
This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
Gross was known for his wooden sculptures and his focus on the human figure. He first studied art on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when he came to the United States and he later taught there at the…