Oil Hanukkah Lamp with Plug

Mark Podwal (b. Brooklyn, NY 1945)
USA, 2017
Acrylic and colored pencil on paper, h. 16 x w. 20 in.
Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of the artist, ©Mark Podwal, 2018.5.5

 

Inspired by this Hanukkah lamp in the Skirball collection, the artist has cleverly modernized a nineteenth-century oil lamp by adding an electric cord and plug.