Masonry Blog – Page 28 – Skirball Cincinnati

Prayer Book and Other Books

Life Cycle, Special Collections, Works by Mark Podwal Prayer Book and Other Books 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, 2018.5.6 Inspired by this prayerbook in the Skirball collection printed in Amsterdam in 1766, the artist has placed the hammered [...]

Simchat Torah Flag with Torah Shield Design

Holidays and Festivals, Special Collections, Torah, Works by Mark Podwal Simchat Torah Flag with Torah Shield Design 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, 2018.5.12 Inspired by this Torah breastplate or shield in the Skirball collection, the artist has incorporated it as [...]

Light Bulb with Bloch Hanukkah Menorah

Holidays and Festivals, Special Collections, Works by Mark Podwal Light Bulb with Bloch Hanukkah Menorah 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, 2018.5.3 Inspired by this Hanukkah menorah in the Skirball collection, the artist has inserted Babette Bloch’s modern Hanukkah lamp [...]

Six Shofars

Holidays and Festivals, Special Collections, Works by Mark Podwal Six Shofars 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, 2018.5.8 Inspired by this shofar in the Skirball collection, the artist has linked together six twisted ram’s horns to create a Star of [...]

Oil Hanukkah Lamp with Plug

Holidays and Festivals, Special Collections, Works by Mark Podwal 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 [...]

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 [...]

Jacob’s Ladder

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections Jacob’s Ladder Shalom Moskovitz (Safed 1887–1980 Safed) Safed, Israel, ca. 1965 Color lithograph, h. 18 3/8 x w. 26 7/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.14 The artist who became known as Shalom of Safed began to paint relatively late, at the age of fifty-five. By [...]

Monts du Negev (Negev Mountains)

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections Monts du Negev (Negev Mountains) Marcel Janco (Romania 1895–1984, Ein Hod, Israel) Israel, ca. 1960 Screen print, h. 26 ½ x w. 19 5/8 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museun, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.10 Born to a wealthy family in Bucharest, Romania, Janco relocated to Zurich in his twenties and [...]

Toys

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections Toys Yosl Bergner (Warsaw, Poland 1920-2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo) Tel Aviv, 1973 Lithograph, h. 26 ½ x w. 19 5/8 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.9 Bergner was born in Warsaw, Poland, reached Australia by the age of 17, and emigrated to Israel in 1951, settling first [...]

The Tea Drinkers

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections The Tea Drinkers Yosl Bergner (Warsaw, Poland 1920–2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo) Tel Aviv, 1966 Hand colored lithograph, h. 13 ¾ x w. 19 9/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.8 Bergner was born in Warsaw, Poland, reached Australia by the age of 17, and emigrated to Israel [...]

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