Simchath Torah

Chaim Gross (1904-1991)
United States
Lithograph, 1969
Gift of Renee and Chaim Gross, 66.2738 e

Chaim Gross was born in 1904 in the Carpathian Mountain region of Austrian Galicia. He spent his first decade steeped in the traditions of Orthodox Jewish life. After his parents were violently attacked by Russian troops, he fled, and by 1921 was in New York. Once there, Gross studied at the Educational Alliance, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and at the Art Students League. He was a prolific draftsman, painter, and printmaker, as well as a sculptor, and he was a beloved teacher as well.

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