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Chaim Gross Art

American, 1904-1991

Chaim Gross was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. Along with other noted sculptors William Zorach and Jose de Creeft, Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, and a majority of his work was carved from wood. Born in Ukraine in 1904, Gross studied at the art academy in Budapest under painter Béla Uitz, followed by art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. He immigrated to the United States with two of his brothers in 1921 and continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design with Elie Nadelman and others, and the Art Students League with sculptor and direct carver Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School at the same time as Peter Blume, Adolph Gottlieb and Moses and Raphael Soyer. Thereafter, Gross began an illustrious career that included important public commissions via his work for the Works Progress Administration and solo and group shows at prestigious galleries and museums such as the Whitney and the Smithsonian. Gross was also recognized with a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle de 1937 in Paris and 1942 with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artists for Victory exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. Gross also had a long career as a professor of printmaking and sculpture at various institutions including the The New School for Social Research, Art Students League and New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with fellow artists Alexander Dobkin and Moses and Raphael Soyer). But he had his longest tenure of 50 years as a professor at his alma mater, the Educational Alliance Art School, where he taught Louise Nevelson in 1934 and helped guide her transition from painter to one of the most important female sculptors of her generation. Gross received multiple honorary doctorates in the 70s and 80s and his work can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. Gross died in 1991.

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Artist: Chaim Gross
The Jewish Holidays, Modern Portfolio of 22 lithographs by Chaim Gross
The Jewish Holidays, Modern Portfolio of 22 lithographs by Chaim Gross

The Jewish Holidays, Modern Portfolio of 22 lithographs by Chaim Gross

By Chaim Gross

Located in Long Island City, NY

The Jewish Holidays portfolio by Chaim Gross. This portfolio consists of 11 color lithographs plus 11 black and white lithographs of the same images depicting 11 of the Jewish Holid...

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1960s Folk Art Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1953 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

"Reclining Nudes, Signed Watercolor Drawing, Contemporary, 1980s"
"Reclining Nudes, Signed Watercolor Drawing, Contemporary, 1980s"

"Reclining Nudes, Signed Watercolor Drawing, Contemporary, 1980s"

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

RECLINING NUDES, Signed Original Watercolor Drawing Chaim Gross (Austrian American, 1902-1991) Original mixed media - watercolor and graphite on paper, hand signed in pencil by Chaim Gross on lower right, very good condition, off-white cream archival acid-free mat, warm metallic pewter color wood frame. Framed size - 20 x 23 in. Image area 12.5 x 16 in. Year - c.1980s Frame is included. About the artist - Chaim Gross (1902-1991) was a modern American sculptor working in New York City from 1921 until his death in 1991. He was born in 1902 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before immigrating to New York City in 1921. In New York City, Gross's studies continued at the Educational Alliance Art School on the Lower East Side, led by Russian-American etcher Abbo Ostrowsky. Gross first began to exhibit his work as a student at the Alliance in 1922 (in the late 1920s, he joined their faculty). Gross also attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design from 1922-25, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League in 1926, with sculptor Robert Laurent. In 1926, Gross began to exhibit his sculpture at the Jewish Art Center (then in the Bronx), and in 1927, at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries at 59th Street and Park Avenue. Beginning in 1928, he exhibited at the Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art), showing a watercolor "Circus" in their 13th Annual Exhibition of Paintings. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition of sculpture at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehudah and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Graphite, Mixed Media, Watercolor

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1953 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist

Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work. Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9 A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Rare Belgian Marble Jewish American Modernist Sculpture Chaim Gross Art Deco
Rare Belgian Marble Jewish American Modernist Sculpture Chaim Gross Art Deco

Rare Belgian Marble Jewish American Modernist Sculpture Chaim Gross Art Deco

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a wonderful original hand carved unique marble sculpture by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed op...

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20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Marble

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1958 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Mother and Baby Playing WPA Artist
Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Mother and Baby Playing WPA Artist

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Mother and Baby Playing WPA Artist

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Cast bronze sculpture Caring (or Mother and Child) signed Mounted on wooden plinth Featuring a mother raising her child up in superb high relied i...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Bronze

MOTHER AND CHILD Signed Lithograph, 1985 Contemporary Portrait Drawing
MOTHER AND CHILD Signed Lithograph, 1985 Contemporary Portrait Drawing

MOTHER AND CHILD Signed Lithograph, 1985 Contemporary Portrait Drawing

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

MOTHER and CHILD is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free. MOTHER and CHILD is an endearing figurative portrait drawing of a mother with her young daughter hand printed from lithographic plates in shades of pale lavender and dark graphite gray. Sensitive sculptural composition of a reclining curly haired woman, balancing her cherub faced child on her lap. Print size - 7.5 x 17 inches, unframed in excellent condition, hand signed in pencil by Chaim Gross Edition size - 75, plus proofs Year published - 1985 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist
Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist

Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Patinated cast bronze sculpture, Three Acrobats, signed mounted on black marble plinth 24.5"h x 14"w x 7"d (bronze alone) Chaim Gross (March ...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Marble, Bronze

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

FLAG SERIES 1980 Signed Lithograph Colorful Flag Collage Madagascar Stamp, Birds
FLAG SERIES 1980 Signed Lithograph Colorful Flag Collage Madagascar Stamp, Birds

FLAG SERIES 1980 Signed Lithograph Colorful Flag Collage Madagascar Stamp, Birds

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

FLAG SERIES 1980 is a brightly colored lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross printed in 10 colors on archival Arches printmaking paper. FLAG SERIES 1980 depicts a bold graphic image comprised of colorful flag segments intermixed to form a varied bird-shaped designs. Chaim Gross' FLAG SERIES was specially commissioned by The World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA) in 1980 as a limited edition lithograph for the UN stamp issue. Lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist Chaim Gross and numbered 166/1500. Postal Stamp and First Day cancel on lower left. Print size - 11.0" x 8.5" unframed, fresh, vivid colors, very good condition, hand signed in pencil by Chaim Gross. Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more...

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1970s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Acrobats, Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross 1948
Acrobats, Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross 1948

Acrobats, Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross 1948

By Chaim Gross

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Chaim Gross, Austrian (1904 - 1991) Title: Acrobats Year: 1948 Medium: Hand-carved wood sculpture, signature and date inscribed Size: 21 in. (53.34 cm) tall

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1940s Chaim Gross Art

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Wood

Mother Playing, Bronze and Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross
Mother Playing, Bronze and Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross

Mother Playing, Bronze and Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross

By Chaim Gross

Located in Long Island City, NY

An abstract modern cubist rendition of a mother playing with her child by Chaim Gross (Austrian, 1904 - 1991). Chaim Gross is known for these playful works and similar works can be f...

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1970s Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Bronze

Rare Early Nude Drawing American Modernist Sculptor
Rare Early Nude Drawing American Modernist Sculptor

Rare Early Nude Drawing American Modernist Sculptor

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a wonderful drawing by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has t...

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20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Charcoal, Pastel, Pencil

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbis WPA Artist
Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbis WPA Artist

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbis WPA Artist

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Watercolor painting Rabbinical Talmudic Discussion Hand signed 17 x 29 framed, paper 10 x 22 Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an ...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Three Girls Bronze Relief Sculpture Plaque Chaim Gross Modernist WPA Era Artist
Three Girls Bronze Relief Sculpture Plaque Chaim Gross Modernist WPA Era Artist

Three Girls Bronze Relief Sculpture Plaque Chaim Gross Modernist WPA Era Artist

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

Chaim Gross Three little girls, three Graces. 1981. Bronze sculptural relief plaque mounted to verdigris marble. signed and dated on marble Marble approx 7.5" x 7" x 1.5". Bronze: ...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Marble, Bronze

Seated Mother and Child
Seated Mother and Child

Seated Mother and Child

By Chaim Gross

Located in New York, NY

Bronze sculpture on wood base. Signature, edition number 11/47, and date inscribed in bronze on back. Cast by Joel Meisner & Co., Plainview , NY (foundry mark lower verso). Height ...

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1970s American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Bronze

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1954 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1954 Spr...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1954 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1954 Spr...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

WOMEN TOGETHER Signed Lithograph Seated Female Figures, Cream, Gray, Terra Cotta
WOMEN TOGETHER Signed Lithograph Seated Female Figures, Cream, Gray, Terra Cotta

WOMEN TOGETHER Signed Lithograph Seated Female Figures, Cream, Gray, Terra Cotta

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

WOMEN TOGETHER is a color lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross presenting an endearing figure study of seated female figures printed on archival white paper in watercolor shades of cream, light terra cotta, warm gray, light blue, light red and graphite black for the drawing. WOMEN TOGETHER is a freely expressed group portrait portraying the gathering of women seated together; their rounded cloud like body forms, gentle facial expressions and curly hair seem to flow in unison across the horizontal composition creating an almost heavenly air. Print size - 20 x 29 inches, unframed, pencil signed by Chaim Gross Edition size - 100, plus proofs Year published - 1979 Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1963, Gross and his family moved from their longtime residence at 30 W. 105th Street to Greenwich Village, following the purchase of a four-story historic townhouse at 526 LaGuardia Place, which is now the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. In 1974, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held the exhibition, Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, and in 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African...

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1970s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1952 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

Materials

Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

HAPPY MOTHER Signed Stone Lithograph 1977, Hand Drawn Portrait Mom and Daughters
HAPPY MOTHER Signed Stone Lithograph 1977, Hand Drawn Portrait Mom and Daughters

HAPPY MOTHER Signed Stone Lithograph 1977, Hand Drawn Portrait Mom and Daughters

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

HAPPY MOTHER, is an original hand drawn, stone lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. Endearing figure study of a woman with a group of young children playing togeth...

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1970s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Peace Mid-Century Modern Pop Art Enamel Painting Chaim Gross Modernist Ltd Ed
Peace Mid-Century Modern Pop Art Enamel Painting Chaim Gross Modernist Ltd Ed

Peace Mid-Century Modern Pop Art Enamel Painting Chaim Gross Modernist Ltd Ed

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

Mod, Hippie era Peace art. Chaim Gross, born in Wolowa, Austria in 1904, was educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and at the Art Student's League in New York. Chaim Gross's work was greatly influenced by his experiences during a period of international conflict, World War II. He had moved to Kolomyia from Wolowa to get a better education, but the Germans came to occupy, killing, raping, and looting. Gross and his family were chased from one village to the next. He wrote, "We were sleeping on roofs and in the fields, with the sound of cannon fire always in the distance,". Eventually, he ended up in Budapest with his two brothers, where Anti­ Semitism was not as severe, and that is where he began to sculpt and draw. He even had a few odd jobs there as a gold­ and silversmith. When he was seventeen, Gross immigrated to America where his older brother was. There he was a student and then a teacher at the Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side. Teaching became a big part of his philosophy, as he believed that an artist must pass on the knowledge which he had received from others in his artwork. He was part of an artist emigre community which included Raphael Soyer, Moses Soyer, Arnold Newman, Max Weber and David Burliuk. His daughter is the artist Mimi Grooms and his son in law was Red Grooms. Chaim Gross works reflect his Jewish and Austrian roots and his Hasidic Jewish upbringing. The figures in his art reflect the Hasidic spirit of being happy and making other people happy. In his pieces, Jews sing and dance in celebration of the Jewish Sabbath and festivals. They are shown rejoicing in the great gifts of love and life. Chaim Gross was honored with a number of prestigious awards including: the Award of Merit Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963, and the Gold Medal award from the National Academy of Design in 1985. He often used his creative abilities to explore and experiment with media. In his artwork he retains an optimistic philosophy, even when facing somber issues such as war, depression, and the Holocaust. He is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. And the EIN HAROD Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman, Mordechai Ardon, Aharon Kahana, Arie Lubin, Yehiel Shemi, Yosl Bergner and others. The graphic arts collection contains drawings and graphic works by Pissaro, Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Marc Chagall (almost all of his graphic work), and numerous other artists. The sculpture collection includes works by Jewish sculptors from all over the world including leading Israeli sculptors; Ben Zvi, Lishansky, David Palombo, Yehiel Shemi, Aharon Bezalel and Igael Tumarkin. Many Jewish sculptors from all parts of the world, beginning with Mark Antokolsky, are represented in the collection. In the sculpture courtyard there are works by Chana Orloff, Jacob Epstein (the works he bequeathed to the Museum), Enrico Glicenstein, Loutchansky, Joseph Constant and Leon Indenbaum...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Metal

NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER Signed Serigraph, Peace Circle Dove Hands Fruit
NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER Signed Serigraph, Peace Circle Dove Hands Fruit

NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER Signed Serigraph, Peace Circle Dove Hands Fruit

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

"NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER" is a brightly colored serigraph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross printed in 16 colors including shades of yellow, blue, purple, salmon p...

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1970s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist

Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Watercolor with pencil painting Rabbi Klezmer music concert, flute player. Hand signed framed: 15 X 28.5, paper: 9.5 X 23 Chaim Gross (March 17...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Two Ballerinas Signed Lithograph 1980, Contemporary Oval Dance Portrait
Two Ballerinas Signed Lithograph 1980, Contemporary Oval Dance Portrait

Two Ballerinas Signed Lithograph 1980, Contemporary Oval Dance Portrait

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

TWO BALLERINAS is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross, hand proofed and printed from lithographic plates on archival Arches paper in waterco...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Children Jewish Holocaust
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Children Jewish Holocaust

FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Children Jewish Holocaust

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION is a fine art limited edition commemorative poster by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION was printed using four col...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Happy Mother Signed Lithograph, Contemporary Figurative Print, 1975
Happy Mother Signed Lithograph, Contemporary Figurative Print, 1975

Happy Mother Signed Lithograph, Contemporary Figurative Print, 1975

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

HAPPY MOTHER is an original hand drawn stone lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. HAPPY MOTHER depicts an endearing figure study of a mother with her two young dau...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

OPERATION MOSES Signed Lithograph, Historic 1984 Airlift Ethiopian Falasha Jews
OPERATION MOSES Signed Lithograph, Historic 1984 Airlift Ethiopian Falasha Jews

OPERATION MOSES Signed Lithograph, Historic 1984 Airlift Ethiopian Falasha Jews

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

OPERATION MOSES is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross, hand proofed and printed from lithographic plates on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. OPERATION MOSES is a contemporary style figurative watercolor drawing created to commemorate the evacuation of African Jews to Israel here represented by visual elements including colorful doves, a yellow menorah, an out stretched hand, city of Jerusalem, the U S White House, stone tablets, and a group of seated Ethiopian people studying Torah. OPERATION MOSES was printed in watercolor shades of light blues, reds, yellow, green, salmon pink, purple, browns and graphite black for the pencil drawing using the age-old hand printing methods first used in fine art lithography printmaking. OPERATION MOSES is a very unique, extremely limited edition lithograph created in commemoration of the historic airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984. Operation Moses refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or "Falashas") from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984. Print size - 16 x 20 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Chaim Gross Image size - 10.5 x 15 1/8 inches Edition size - 10, plus proofs Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co. NY Never been framed or mounted, pencil signed A.P.(Artist Proof) aside from an edition of 10, printers chop on lower left corner, from the master printers private collection Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1963, Gross and his family moved from their longtime residence at 30 W. 105th Street to Greenwich Village, following the purchase of a four-story historic townhouse at 526 LaGuardia Place, which is now the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. In 1974, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held the exhibition, Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, and in 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

PROVINCETOWN FISHING NETS Signed Lithograph, 1979, Cape Cod Fisherman
PROVINCETOWN FISHING NETS Signed Lithograph, 1979, Cape Cod Fisherman

PROVINCETOWN FISHING NETS Signed Lithograph, 1979, Cape Cod Fisherman

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

PROVINCETOWN FISHING NETS is a limited edition lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. PROVINCETOWN FISHING NETS was printed using traditional lithography methods on ...

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1970s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1955 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, and published by the Artists Equity Association of New York in an edition of 2000...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1958 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1954 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1954 Spr...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Chaim Gross

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1957 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

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1950s Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

SABBATH ANGELS Signed Lithograph, 1983 Figurative Watercolor Sculptural Drawing
SABBATH ANGELS Signed Lithograph, 1983 Figurative Watercolor Sculptural Drawing

SABBATH ANGELS Signed Lithograph, 1983 Figurative Watercolor Sculptural Drawing

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

SABBATH ANGELS is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross, presenting an impressive sculptural drawin...

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1980s Contemporary Chaim Gross Art

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Lithograph

Bust of Yitzhak Rabin, Expressionist Bronze Sculpture by Chaim Gross
Bust of Yitzhak Rabin, Expressionist Bronze Sculpture by Chaim Gross

Bust of Yitzhak Rabin, Expressionist Bronze Sculpture by Chaim Gross

By Chaim Gross

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Chaim Gross, Austrian/American (1904 - 1991) Title: Bust of Yitzhak Rabin Year: 1967 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed Size: 12.5 x 6.5 x 8.5 in. (31.75 x 16.51 x...

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1960s Expressionist Chaim Gross Art

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Bronze

Violin Player Watercolor Ink, Expressionist, Signed, 1960s, Framed
Violin Player Watercolor Ink, Expressionist, Signed, 1960s, Framed

Violin Player Watercolor Ink, Expressionist, Signed, 1960s, Framed

By Chaim Gross

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Violin Player 1960/65 work size 11x29, with frame 18x36 inches, artist signed. Chaim Gross (1904 Austria–1991 USA) will always be remembered as one of the foremost American artist : ...

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1960s Expressionist Chaim Gross Art

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Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Archival Paper

Chain Gross Acrobat with Cat Original Drawing from The Acrobats series, Signed
Chain Gross Acrobat with Cat Original Drawing from The Acrobats series, Signed

Chain Gross Acrobat with Cat Original Drawing from The Acrobats series, Signed

By Chaim Gross

Located in Plainview, NY

Chaim Gross (American, 1904–1991) Acrobat with Cats, ca. 1950s Original drawing from The Acrobats series, Signed and dated lower right This expressive ink and wash drawing by Chaim...

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20th Century American Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Paper

The Rabbis, Judaica portraits
The Rabbis, Judaica portraits

The Rabbis, Judaica portraits

By Chaim Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

the piece without the original frame measures 18X7.5 inchesThis is a wonderful watercolor by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has ...

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1960s Modern Chaim Gross Art

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Dancing Mother"
"Dancing Mother"

"Dancing Mother"

By Chaim Gross

Located in Astoria, NY

Chaim Gross (American, 1902-1991), "Dancing Mother", Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1964, signed in pencil and dated lower right, titled lower center, and numbered "XI/XV" and inscribed "H...

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1960s Post-War Chaim Gross Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph

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