Brooklyn-born artist Lenore “Lee” Krasner was among the most talented abstract painters of New York’s midcentury movement. She trained at the Women’s Art School of Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. Krasner’s energetic and colorful compositions were the product of a tireless impulse to push her creative abilities and explore abstract visual language. Krasner ultimately found recognition as an abstract expressionist, with a 1965 retrospective at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973, and a full retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 1983.
Yehudah Pen painted this self-portrait shortly after opening the School of Drawing and Painting in Vitebsk, which over the twenty years of its existence attracted hundreds of young men and women…
This exquisite jewelry box was crafted in Nuremberg, Germany, before 1540 and given to a bride for her wedding. Etched in steel, copper plated, and partly gilt, the panels, on four sides and the lid…
Based on a painting, now lost, by Maurits Leon, this lithograph by Johannes Heinrich Rennefeld (1832–1877) seems to depict a scene from an 1837 novel about Spinoza by German Jewish author Berthold…