Shmuel Goldstein

Shtetl Farmer at the End of a Long Day

Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape with figure of horse, driver and wagon Medium: Oil Surface: wood Board Hand signed lower middle E.Romano EMANUEL ROMANO Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 19...

Judaic Shtetl scene, Chassidic Water Carrier Vladimir Abramovich Rutstein, Russia • born in 1922, died in 1987. Wladimir Abramowicz Rutschtein Russian Jewish Painter. Member of the ...

Simon Karczmar, Polish (1903 - 1982) Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1903, Simon Karczmar studied art in Paris, where he lived for twenty years. Although he left France for Israel in 196...

GERSHON KNISPEL Cologne, Germany (Haifa, Israel - Sao Paulo, Brazil), b. 1932 Gershon Knispel was born in Cologne, Germany in 1932. Within a year of his birth the Nazi Party came to ...

Making Hay - Russian School Mid Century Figurative Landscape Mid Century figurative landscape of old-fashioned hay making in the countryside by Russian artist Volodymyr Erlich (Russ...

Work on cardboard Beige wooden frame 67.5 x 86 x 4 cm

Provenance: The Artist. Menikoff collection (friends of the artist) About this artist: Born in Little Italy in 1907, Gregorio Prestopino first set out to become a sign painter as the son of New York City immigrants. Instead, his talent provided a life-changing scholarship to the National Academy of Design, and for five years he studied drawing under C. W. Hawthorne. He spent the summer of 1934 at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His deep involvement with the colony led him to later serve as its director in 1954. Much of Prestopino’s work was in the vein of social realism. During the 1940s and 1950s he became deeply invested in portraying everyday Manhattan and Harlem scenes. He first became interested in the Ashcan school at the National Academy of Design, and remained committed to an interest in working with urban scenes. His lively treatment of people and events revealed his affinity for sixteenth-century artist Pieter Breughel. Later in his career, he focused on producing images of nudes and picturesque New Hampshire landscapes, and investigated the relationship between color and form. Prestopino exhibited at several biennials at the Corcoran Gallery, at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art. His work was frequently shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was awarded the Temple Gold Medal in 1946 and an additional prize in 1952. He was awarded a National Institute of Arts and Letter Grant in 1961, and in 1972 the National Academy of Design awarded him the Altman Figure Painting Award. Prestopino’s artistic cache skyrocketed when Life magazine published his images from New York’s maximum security institution Green Haven as part of its “Prison Series” in 1957. That same year his paintings and sketches of urban life were featured in the short film Harlem Wednesday. Directed by John and Faith Hubley...

Original Danish oil on plate painting from 1945 of a cloudy day where a man is plowing the fields with help from two horses. The colour palette is gloomy yet powerful and captures th...