Polly Kraft

American Woman Artist Society Doyenne Polly Kraft Large Watercolor Painting

1984

Katarzyna LIBROWICZ Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 . She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants . She is one of the painters of the School of Paris . Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937. Elle suivit les...

Ernst Oppler (9 September 1867 – 1 March 1929) was a German Impressionist painter and etcher born in Hanover. Oppler at a meeting of the Berlin secession...

Yosl Bergner Abstract Composition, Kitchen Utensils. Oil painting of kitchen implements. Hand signed in English bottom right Titled and signed ve...

Watercolor painting of Old City of Jerusalem MORDECHAI AVNIEL Minsk, Belarus, b. 1900, d. 1989 Mordecai Dickstein (later Avniel) was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He studied fine arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia (1913–19) and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1923). Avniel immigrated to Palestine in 1921 where he first worked as a pioneer in citrus plantations near Petah Tikva. In 1923, at the urging of Boris Schatz, he went to Jerusalem to further his art studies at Bezalel. He later taught painting and sculpture at the school, and served a term as director of the Small Sculpture Section of the Sculpture Department (1924–28). From 1935 on, Avniel lived in Haifa. Avniel was also a lawyer and a founding partner of the Haifa firm Avniel, Salomon & Company. Avniel regularly showed his work in group exhibitions of the Painters and Sculptors' Association of Israel. He was awarded the Herman Struck Prize (1952), Tenth Anniversary Prize for Watercolours, Ramat Gan (1958), Histadrut Prize (1961), and First Prize Haifa Municipality (1977). He represented Israel at the 1958 Venice Biennale and the 1962 International Art Seminar at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Avniel was a member of the Artists' Colony in Safed and maintained a studio on Mount Carmel. Mordechai Avniel is best known for his deft and singular landscape work. His works are held in numerous museums and collections both in Israel and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. Avniel's manipulations of light and colour share much with those of compatriot artists Shimshon Holzman and Joseph Kossonogi. Education 1913-19 Art School of Katrinburg, Russia 1923 Bezalel School of Art, Jerusalem Selected exhibitions: 2004: Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa (online catalogue) 1965: Mordechai Avniel Retrospective, Haifa Municipality Museum of Modern Art, Haifa 1964: Galerie Synthèse, Paris 1962: New York University, New York 1961: Rina Gallery of Modern Art, Jerusalem The Autumn Exhibition Rina Gallery, Jerusalem Artists: Dedi Ben Shaul, Lea Nikel, Yossef Zaritsky,Ephraim Fima Roytenberg, Zvi Meirovich, Aharon Kahana, Avigdor Stematsky, Mordechai Levanon, Yosl Bergner, Israel Paldi...

NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) Subway Scene, 1930s 8 x 9 inches Ink and wash on paper Singed lower ...

At cafe. Mixed media on paper, 18.5x14 cm

Jules Andre Smith (American, 1880-1959) In the Art Gallery, 1936 Watercolor and pen and ink Signed Andre Smith, 1936 lower right 10.75 x 8.5 inches 20.25 x 17.25 inches, framed Jule...

A fascinating orientalist art deco composition. Pen and brownish brown ink with gouache on cream wove paper, 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (245 x 190 mm), the full sheet. In good condition w...