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There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
Ivory relief of a woman at a window, Arslan Tash, Syria, ninth–eighth century BCE.
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…
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…
In the 1930s, Lotte Errell and her husband, also a photographer, traveled the world, visiting countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The outbreak of war in 1939 found the now divorced and…
Menahem Shemi was a member of the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School to create a modern art of Jewish revival. In The…
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…
Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
Anna Ticho’s life work was drawing the landscapes of the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem. In the 1950s, she was able more easily to access these landscapes when she bought a house in Motza, a town on…
[ . . . ] Not only did Jews not have anything to do, even remotely, with oppositional circles expressing discontent with the…
