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This calligraphic print appears in Ben Shahn’s book Alphabet of Creation, based on a tale about how God created the world through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken from the Zohar, a thirteenth…
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Ben Shahn
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1957
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This “imaginary wall” in Raphael Soyer’s studio features (clockwise, from top left) a self-portrait; portraits of the artists Nicolai Cikovsky, Moses Soyer, and Chaim Gross. In the center is the…
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Raphael Soyer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Untitled is from Lee Krasner’s Little Images series from the late 1940s, which the artist painted on small canvases on a table in her bedroom, soon after she and her husband Jackson Pollock moved to…
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Lee Krasner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho painted this portrait of Wakara (ca. 1808–1855) of the Timpanogos tribe (later chief of the Utah Indians) after returning from a trip to the territories of Kansas, Colorado, and…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Utah, United States of America
Date:
1854
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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…
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William Gropper
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938–1939
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Levine was a figurative painter known for his political and social commentaries about economic inequality, capitalism, and political power. He painted in a distinctive cartoonish style in which people…
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Jack Levine
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1939
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Late in his career, Guston turned from abstract expressionism to figurative art, creating iconoclastic, allegorical paintings. Moon is a combination of still-life, self-portrait, and landscape. In the…
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Philip Guston
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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Motherwell’s most famous series of artworks was his Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which he intended as “a funeral song” for the losing side, the Republicans, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)…
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Robert Motherwell
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Greenwich, United States of America
Date:
1980
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Many of Borofsky’s works are based on autobiographical narratives or his dreams about people such as movie stars, his family, other artists, and historical figures, including Hitler. The text in this…
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Jonathan Borofsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1984
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Petlin was known for his narrative art and for depicting subjects drawn from his own personal history. Weisswald (White Forest) is a series of nine paintings almost all of which are set on what looks…
Contributor:
Irving Petlin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1987