Karen Lee Sobol

Kaleidoscope

2016

Labeled verso: "Arcadia XIII / paper & ink on rag board / 26 x 20""; signed lower center: "Ruth Eckstein". From the estate of the artist. Ruth Eckstein has received national and int...

Titled verso lower left: "Arcadia V"; signed lower right: "Ruth Eckstein". From the estate of the artist. Ruth Eckstein has received national and international recognition as an abs...

In the face of the devastating effects of climate change, Karen Lee Sobol is determined to remain an optimist. Her paintings reflect a positivity born from deep admiration for the na...

Signed lower left: “Freeman”. Artist’s frame.

Signed lower right: "Zerbe". In fine condition

Signed lower left: "Polonsky". A Boston Expressionist with a wholly unique worldview, Arthur Polonsky, spent seven decades exploring man’s place i...

Abstract expressionist portrait of a colorful face by Berkeley artist Howard Margolis (American, 1927-2015). Unsigned, with “Howard Margolis” on verso. Presented unframed, in a paste...

Watercolor painting of standing prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb...

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper