The following biography is from "Search for the Soul of Judaism". by William Brailsford, The Washington Times: May 18, 1997. In modern Hebrew, the words for truth and art come from the same root.... Read full biography
The following biography is from "Search for the Soul of Judaism". by William Brailsford, The Washington Times: May 18, 1997. In modern Hebrew, the words for truth and art come from the same root. With masterful sensitivity, the artist Ben-Zion has transformed the horrible truths of the 20th century... Read full biography
The following biography is from "Search for the Soul of Judaism". by William Brailsford, The Washington Times: May 18, 1997. In modern Hebrew, the words for truth and art come from the same root. With masterful sensitivity, the artist Ben-Zion has transformed the horrible truths of the 20th century into a powerful artistic repertory of etchings, drawings, paintings and sculpture that beckon the viewer into his magical interpretation of the world, and the realities, of Jewish culture. In the... Read full biography
The following biography is from "Search for the Soul of Judaism". by William Brailsford, The Washington Times: May 18, 1997. In modern Hebrew, the words for truth and art come from the same root. With masterful sensitivity, the artist Ben-Zion has transformed the horrible truths of the 20th century into a powerful artistic repertory of etchings, drawings, paintings and sculpture that beckon the viewer into his magical interpretation of the world, and the realities, of Jewish culture. In the centenary year of this self taught artist, The B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum has brought together an extraordinary collection of Ben-Zion's work. A poet and writer, Ben-Zion stopped using the Hebrew language as the realities of the... Read full biography
The following biography is from "Search for the Soul of Judaism". by William Brailsford, The Washington Times: May 18, 1997. In modern Hebrew, the words for truth and art come from the same root. With masterful sensitivity, the artist Ben-Zion has transformed the horrible truths of the 20th century into a powerful artistic repertory of etchings, drawings, paintings and sculpture that beckon the viewer into his magical interpretation of the world, and the realities, of Jewish culture. In the centenary year of this self taught artist, The B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum has brought together an extraordinary collection of Ben-Zion's work. A poet and writer, Ben-Zion stopped using the Hebrew language as the realities of the Holocaust became evident; writing in "the language of the martyred ones" became "unthinkable" to him.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (31)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
Painting a Place in America Jewish Artists in New York 1900-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kleeblatt, Norman L and Susan Chevlowe (Editors)
208 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes
159 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg
108 pages (color)
Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century
1984
Kampf, Avram
240 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Jewish Liturgy
1975
Posner, Raphael, et al.
0 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
Art and Tradition The Jewish Artist in America
1967
Grossman, Emery
176 pages (color)
The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Hofer, Philip
232 pages (color)
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Brooklyn Museum
72 pages
Fifty Contemporary American Artis (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Chanin, A L/Greenwich Gallery
112 pages
Modern Renaissance in American Art
1954
Pearson, Ralph M
300 pages
The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1944
The Art Institute of Chicago
22 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index