Jewish-American Artists

This visual program focuses on the historical development of American Jewish artists, such as:

Meyer Myers, an 18th c. goldsmith	Moses Ezekiel, a 19th c. sculptor
Solomon Carvalho, a 19th c. photographer	Henry Mosler, a 19th c. painter

and many different 20th c. painters, sculptors, and video artists, such as:

Alfred Stieglitz, photographer	Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor
Raphael and Moses Soyer, painters/printmakers	Elie Nadelman, sculptor
Max Weber, painter	Philip Evergood, painter
William Zorach, sculptor	Arthur Szyk, painter/illustrator
Gertrud and Otto Natzlers, ceramicists	Alfred Eisenstadt, journalist photographer
Roman Vishniac, Holocaust photographer	Richard Avedon, fashion photographer
Diane Arbus, photographer	Aaron Siskind, photographer
Ad Reinhardt, painter	Philip Guston, painter
Morris Louis, painter	Jules Olitski, painter
Roy Lichtenstein, painter	Miriam Schapiro, painter
Audrey Flack, painter	Judy Chicago, painter
Jim Dine, painter	Ida Applebroog, painter
Jerome Witkin, painter	Ken Aptekar, painter

These creative individuals all show aspects of their world in their own special way.

Whether they were born in the United States or elsewhere, the art of these artists reflects their desire to become 100 percent American and to seek a place in the international art world. During the Modernist period (1900-1980), many artists emphasized abstraction as symbolic of universal concerns, while others examined their unique views of specific experience.

This presentation is adaptable to all ages.

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