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Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figurative (stained glass style)
Medium: Mixed media gouache on paper
Hand signed lower left
Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974)
Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930.
During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States.
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920.
Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art.
Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover.
The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Alexander Raymond Katz Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Unwelcome Interruption, Oil Painting by A. Raymond Katz 1935
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 - 1974)
Title: Unwelcome Interruption
Year: circa 1935
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled verso
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40...
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1930s American Modern Alexander Raymond Katz Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude with Fruit Basket, Oil Painting by A. Raymond Katz c1949
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 - 1974)
Title: Nude with Fruit Basket
Year: circa 1949
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 x 33 in. (121.92 x 83.82 cm)
Category
1940s Expressionist Alexander Raymond Katz Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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