The artist Todros Geller was born in Vinnitsa (Vinnytsya), Ukraine, and studied art in Odessa, Montreal, and Chicago, his home from 1918 until his death. He worked in several mediums, including oil paintings, woodcuts, wood carvings, and etchings, often with Jewish themes. A left-wing Yiddishist and admirer of the Soviet Union, he believed that art could be a tool for social reform. Despite his radicalism, he also designed stained glass windows for synagogues and took part in the communal life of Chicago Jewry.
Though better known for his political cartoons, Gropper was also an acclaimed painter. This painting was probably inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and its title, Minorities, suggests that the…
Assurbanipal Feasting in Palace Garden, relief from the palace of Assurbanipal (reigned 669–627 BCE) in Nineveh. The king and his queen are surrounded by ornamental and fruit trees, palms, and vines…
This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…