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Shulamith Wittenberg Miller"She Made Him Sleep on her Knees" Etching Israeli Judaica Bezalel School Woman 1964
1964
About the Item
Etching hand signed and dated in English. Titled, "She Made Him Sleep on her Knees" Biblical Etching.
Shulamit Wittenberg Miller
Born 1908 in Jerusalem, attended Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, under Prof. Boris Schatz; advanced studies in Paris at the Académie Montparnasse under the cubist painter André Lhote. She had a solo show put on by Narkiss in the original Bezalel School in Palestine along with Anna Ticho and Hana Orloff. In 1933, married Rabbi Meyer Miller and moved to the U.S.A. that year, residing in Greenwich CT until 1950.
Education
1925-29 Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, with Boris Schatz, Abel Pann
Academie Montparnasse, Paris, France, Advanced studies, with Andre L'Hote.
In 1950 Shulamith Wittenberg-Miller moved to Durban, South Africa as her husband had been appointed the spiritual leader of the Durban Reform Congregation which he was to build up in a 20 year ministry. She continued to paint and exhibit in South Africa and abroad.
Selected exhibitions
First Tower of David Exhibition, Jerusalem, April, 1921
SA Association of Arts, Cape Town - Paintings and etchings - March, 1962
Gallery 101, Johannesburg ("Women of the Bible") (copper etchings) – 27th April - 14th May, 1964
Durban Art Gallery, Durban - 22nd September to 3rd October, 1965
SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - Republic Festival Exhibition, 1966 (May) cat. 200
Durban - 8th to 22nd May, 1968 (paintings)
Durban Jewish Club, Durban - 23rd August, 1975 (etchings)
1934 :Paintings and woodcuts by Shulamith Wittenberg, the young Hebrew Palestinian artist who exhibited earlier in the season at the Roerich Museum, are being shown this week daily from 2 P.M. to 9 P.M. at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West Eighty-sixth Street.
Works in Public Museums
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY USA
University of California UCLA, Berkeley CA
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
The Bancroft Library
New York Public Library – The Print Collection
Hebrew Union College Jewish Museum, Cincinnati OH
Spertus Museum, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago IL
Durban Art Gallery, Durban
WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 1564-1975 (Peter Hastings Falk, Editor), 1999
Books published and illustrated by Shulamith W Miller
"I remember Jerusalem“ (Olive Tree Press, West Hempstead N.Y.), 1983
“Rabbi Meyer Miller 1903-1985 – a remembrance: poems and sketches” (memorial booklet, privately printed, USA), 28 pp., abt. 1986
- Creator:Shulamith Wittenberg Miller (1908 - 1995)
- Creation Year:1964
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)
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- Condition:good. minor wear. please see photos.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38214160872
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