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In The Travelers, one of a series of “Mother Paintings,” Marie-Louise Motesiczky depicts herself and her mother, Henrietta (the white-haired woman at right), escaping from Nazi-occupied Austria…
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
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1940
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This sepia watercolor-over-pencil picture is representative of the romantic landscapes and cityscapes for which Salomon Leonardus Verveer was best known. His work bridges the romantic tradition in…
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Salomon Leonardus Verveer
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South Holland, Netherlands
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1851
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Adam Muszka likely painted this scene from memory. As a child, he had attended cheder, a traditional Jewish elementary school, in his native Piotrków Trybunalski, a Polish town of about 51,000…
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Adam Muszka
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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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
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1938–1939
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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
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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Shamir is known for portraits and landscapes that explore Zionist history and his own family story. Many of his paintings are set in Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley, a village his family helped to…
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Elie Shamir
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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In 2000, Cohen Levy had an exhibition, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, of a series of paintings of ponds. Each of the paintings has a pattern: a single image, such as leaves, eyes, or fish, which is…
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Maya Cohen Levy
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1998