Showing Results 1 - 10 of 5405
Restricted
Image
Nocturne was painted after Marcel Janco and his family moved to Palestine. Showing two men ministering to a mortally wounded soldier, surrounded by weeping, lamenting figures, the painting creates a…
Contributor:
Marcel Janco
Places:
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Arthur Kolnik dedicated his illustrations of Y. L. Peretz’s story, “A gilgl fun a nign” (The Transmigration of a Melody), to his brother, who, along with his family, was murdered in the Holocaust…
Contributor:
Arthur Kolnik
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The focus of this photograph is the rank-and-file participants at a socialist May Day rally, rather than the politicians delivering the speeches. Members of the Photo League maintained that it was the…
Contributor:
Jerome Liebling
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home is one of a series of photomontages that Grete Stern produced from 1948 to 1951. They appeared in an Argentinian women’s magazine illustrating a weekly…
Contributor:
Grete Stern
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1945–1955
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Louis Stettner took this picture on his way back to the United States, after spending several years in Paris studying photography and exhibiting his work. The man and two children on the deck of a…
Contributor:
Louis Stettner
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1951
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Like most of Henry Valensi’s other “Symphony” paintings, Symphonie Vitale does not refer to a specific piece of music, but instead reflects the principles of Musicalism, the art movement founded by…
Contributor:
Henry Valensi
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1952
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The female figure, especially dancers, were a favorite subject for Moses Soyer. He was especially inspired by Edgar Degas and Honoré Daumier, whose paintings he had the opportunity to examine…
Contributor:
Moses Soyer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
This is a modern artist’s illustration of a painting of a seated male in profile, perhaps an enthroned dignitary. The painting was made on a potsherd from Ramat Rahel. It measures around 5 × 3 inches…
Places:
Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel (Ramat Rahel, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Cornell Capa took this picture of boys learning Torah or the Hebrew alphabet at a time when Hasidic survivors of the Holocaust were just beginning to rebuild their communities. Brooklyn, New York was…
Contributor:
Cornell Capa
Places:
Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Helen Frankenthaler’s approach to painting forged a new direction for modern art. She developed a technique in which thinned oil paint seeped directly into the canvas, staining the fabric and yielding…
Contributor:
Helen Frankenthaler
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1957