Well-known for his line drawings of actors that have been published in the NY Times since the 30s. Still working at age 96. 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.
Italian (Jewish) painter and sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th C. His sculpture and art work was influenced by African forms. His color sense was sublime. His brother, Vittorio, was a leading figure in the Socialist party and supporter of Zionism.
Sir Anthony Caro is one of the most prominent British Sculptors of our era. His abstract works feature welded metal structures. His "Odalisque" is in NYs Met.
Pissarro was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted only a few still-lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.
Pissarro was a Jewish French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Pascin of Bulgarian origins, considered one of modern arts great painters known especially for sensitive depictions of women. Based in Paris, he eventually emigrated to the U.S. Prominently featured in recent exhibit of Jewish painters who worked in Paris, at New Yorks Jewish Museum.
Freud was a Jewish British painter who was the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His works are in a realistic style, and have sometimes been compared to Edward Hoppers work in the mood that they set. A member of the post-war School of London painters.
Chagall was born in Russia as Marc Segal, he slightly altered the common spelling. His colorful, dreamlike paintings made him one of the most popular painters of the 20th Century. His early works are most admired, especially lovely are the paintings featuring him and his beloved and smart wife, Bella Rosenfeld. Probably no other Jewish artist has produced work that consistently relates to a Jewish background, but enjoys both great popular and critical acclaim.
Pissarro, known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. She was part of a family of artists, including her father Lucien Pissarro and grandfather, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro.
Agam is a 20th Century Israeli abstract artist. Best know for compositions like Transparent rhythm in which the pattern changes depending on the angle at which you view it. A fountain/sculpture based on this concept stands on Dizengoff Square in Tel-Aviv.
