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  • Rare Modernist Judaica Scholar Rabbi Studying Oil Painting
    Located in Surfside, FL
    a moody atmospheric Judaica painting of a Rabbi studying Jewish texts.
    Category

    20th Century Folk Art Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Untitled, Soviet Refusnik, Judaica Painting
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Rabbi In Violet, Sensitive Jewish image. in an Outsider Folk Art style. signed in Hebrew bold script.
    Category

    20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Board

  • Whimsical Judaica Shtetl Shadchan Matchmaker Oil Painting WPA Jewish Folk Artist
    By Maurice Kish
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Genre: Modern Subject: Fiddler on the roof, Shtetl matchmaker Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Board, Oil

  • Alabama Surreal Folk Art Oil Painting African American Woman, Flower Headdress
    By Maltby Sykes
    Located in Surfside, FL
    The painting is signed Sykes and dated 1960 lower right. It has "Maltby Sykes, 1911- for Leon" written on the stretcher verso It is a Surrealist Folk Art ...
    Category

    1960s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Large Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Oil Painting Jazz Great "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Swing Jazz Quartet. Satchmo, Louis Armstrong! Oil Painting on board. Hand signed and dated 1974 Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; 1931) is an American folk art painter. She is ...
    Category

    1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Board

  • Rare Modernist Judaica Scholar Rabbi in Synagogue Oil Painting Signed Mora
    Located in Surfside, FL
    a mid century Judaica painting of a Rabbi wearing a Tallit prayer shawl. In the Modernist manner of Maurice Kish, Tully filmus or William Gropper. ...
    Category

    20th Century Folk Art Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

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