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In the early 1940s, Adolph Gottlieb created a new style of art, known as “pictographs,” which are grid-like compositions or asymmetrical arrangements of boxes. His subject matter was drawn from…
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Adolph Gottlieb
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New York, United States of America
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1946
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Abraham is a dark painting with an off-center black vertical stripe, measuring 6' 10 3/4" x 34 1/2". Its artist, Barnett Newman, said that viewing it was like coming face to face with a tall man. His…
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Barnett Newman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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The Strabismic Jew is one of Baskin's most famous prints. “Strabismic” means “squinting” and, indeed, the Yiddish inscription reads “The Jew with the squinty eyes.” In this enigmatic woodcut, the face…
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Leonard Baskin
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1955
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Few works by Louise Nevelson allude to Jewish themes. Homage to the Six Million is one of the exceptions. She said of her sculpture that she hoped it would create “a living presence of a people who…
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Louise Nevelson
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1964
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In designing this synagogue, Alschuler drew on photographs of the remains of a second-century Byzantine synagogue in Tiberias. He wrote that he designed the synagogue “not in sense of slavish…
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Alfred S. Alschuler
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1924
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In this painting, the elderly proprietor selling newspapers in several languages under the elevated train in Chicago faces away from the hustle and bustle of the street. He and the newspapers are…
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Todros Geller
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1928
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A new world being made—one hears
In childhood that it has begun;
Then comes the passage of the years—
Is it not yet fully done?
The new world being made—always,
From childhood on—and on the day
The…
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Avrom Reisen
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, 20th century
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The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…
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Will Eisner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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Like many of Gertrud Natzler's ceramics, this bowl is flowing and graceful, and, as Otto, her husband and artistic partner, said about her pots in general, “practically floats.” The Natzlers’ works…
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Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1960
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When Arnold Newman was asked by Newsweek magazine to photograph industrialist Alfred Krupp, he initially refused. He was repelled by the idea of photographing a man who had been prosecuted as a war…
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Arnold Newman
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Staten Island, United States of America
Date:
1963