Works by Mark Podwal

In 2016, world-renowned artist Mark Podwal approached the Skirball Museum with a proposal to make a set of drawings inspired by some of the outstanding examples of ritual and ceremonial Judaica in the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection that had been absorbed by the Skirball the previous year. An exhibition of eighteen drawings resulted from that proposal, and they were gifted to the Skirball by the artist at the conclusion of the exhibition.

A second exhibition from spring 2022 at the Skirball of works by Mark Podwal entitled A Collage of Customs consists of 26 prints inspired by the 1593 Venice edition of Sefer Minhagim or Book of Customs. The artist gifted the Skirball with a set of 26 signed archival pigment prints in 2021.

Torah Finial (Rimmon)

Special Collections, Torah, Works by Mark Podwal

Torah Finial (Rimmon) 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, 2018.5.11 Inspired by this Torah finial in the Skirball collection, the artist has replaced the knob at the top of an elaborate [...]

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