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Eric Wolf
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Eric Andrew Wolf graduate of R.I. School of Design. rep. by Jessica Fredericks Gallery in Manhattan. Recipient of an award by Rockefeller Foundation to spend 3 months at Giverney, Monet's home in Paris, as artist in residence, 1999. (Editor's note: We have decided to list some younger lesser known artists. This is a hard field and a free mention is a mitzvah. But if you have a business--be a mensch-buy an ad).
Gabriele Levy
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Gabriele Levy, Italian Jewish artist who specializes in stylized Hebrew lettering. Her work is on the web and in an Italian synagogue.
Josef Elgurt
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Josef Elgurt - He is a 75 year old Jewish artist in Riga, Latvia. Born in Kishinev, Moldova; He survived several ghettos. He works with different print technics: litography, lino-cut, etching.
Art Spiegelman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus.
Peter Weiss
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Peter Weiss (November 8, 1916 – May 10, 1982) was a playwright, author, and painter. Weiss was born in Germany in 1916 to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. He described his experiences in the heavily autobiographical novel "Exile". His most famous work is the play (shortened title) "Marat/Sade", which was made into a film. Died in 1982.
Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 11, 1991)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Noted photographer, was instructor at Chicago Institute of Design. He was an influential American teacher, editor, and photographer who is best known for his innovations in abstract photography.
Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Well-known for his line drawings of actors that have been published in the NY Times since the '30's. Was still working at age 96 shortly before he passed away. The number usually found in the corner of his drawings is the number of times the name of his daughter "Nina" is hidden in the drawing.
Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Jim Dine is an American pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with musician John Cage, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world. The first of these was the 30 second The Smiling Worker performed in 1959.
Judy Chicago
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm

Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator.

Judy Chicago is a feminist artist who has been making work since the middle 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevancy. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project.

Julian Schnabel
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Julian Schnabel (Born: October 26, 1951) is an Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning Jewish American artist and filmmaker born in Brooklyn, New York City.
Larry Rivers
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Larry Rivers (August 17, 1923 - August 14, 2002) was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on (Long Island) and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
Léon Bakst
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a Russian painter and scene- and costume- designer who revolutionized the arts he worked in. Born as Lev (Leib) Rosenberg, he was also known as Leon (Lev) Nikolayevich Bakst (Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст). "Bakst" is his pseudonym derived from his grandmother's family name, Bakster (Baxter).
Leonard Baskin
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000), the son of a rabbi, was a multi-disciplinary artist who worked in several mediums. Born in 1922, he was perhaps best known for his bas reliefs and witty illustrations. His bas relief of FDR's funeral cortege is on the new FDR memorial in Washington. He created satirical books on extinct creatures that never existed and Jewish artists of the Renaissance.
Marcel Janco
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Marcel Janco/Iancu/Ianco (May 24, 1895 – April 21, 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli artist, painter and architect born to a Jewish family in Bucharest.

A friend and compatriot of Tristan Tzara, he was among the founders of the Dadaist movement at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. In 1922 he returned to Romania and worked as an architect and painter until 1941 when, in face of growing anti-semitism during World War II (see Romania during World War II), he emigrated to Palestine.

Roy Lichtenstein
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work was heavily influenced by popular advertising and comic book styles. He himself described Pop art as: "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting"
 

Seymour Chwast (Born: 1931)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm

Seymour Chwast is an illustrator and graphic designer. He, along with Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Along with Glaser, Chwast created The Push Pin Graphic, an award-winning bi-monthly publication from the Push Pin Studios which achieved a worldwide reputation. He has since done many posters, food packaging, magazine covers and publicity art. Often referred to as "the left-handed designer," Chwast's unique graphic design melded social commentary and an innovative approach to photography.

Victor David Brenner (June 12, 1871 – April 5, 1924)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Victor David Brenner was the designer of the United States Lincoln Wheat Ears Cent. He was born to Jewish parents in Shavli, Lithuania in 1871 and became a noted sculptor, engraver, and medalist. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and emigrated to the United States in 1890, living mostly in the New York area.
Yaacov Agam [יעקב אגם‎] (Born: May 11, 1928)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Yaacov Agam (Hebrew: יעקב אגם‎), born Yaacov Gipstein, is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art. Born in Rishon LeZion, Israel (Palestine at the time) to a religious family, Agam trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zürich and then to Paris, where he settled. His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Graven in 1953, and in 1955 he established himself as one of the leading pioneers of kinetic art at the Le Mouvement exhibition at the Galerie Denise René, alongside such artists as Jesús Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely.


 
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