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Elias Newman
Untitled Palestine Landscape, Vintage Bezalel Schoo Israeli Watercolor Painting

1937

About the Item

c.1937 watercolor by American artist, Elias Newman (1903-1990), measures 20.25 x 17.25 inches. Depicted is a landscape scene in gestural brushstrokes. Signed lower left. Birth place: Stashow, Poland Addresses: NYC/Rockport, MA Profession: Painter, writer, teacher, lecturer Studied: NAD, 1918-20; Educ. Alliance Art Sch., 1920-25; Acad. Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1929. Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1925; Juden in der Kunst, Salon Brendle', Zürich, Switzerland, 1929; Audubon A., 1945, 1960 (Stern Mem. Medal & Prize, Audubon Artists 18th Ann.);Montross Gal., 1934 (solo); A. Center, NYC, 1935; BMA, 1934, 1940; Md. Inst., 1935, 1938; Tel-Aviv Mus., 1939; LACMA, 1944; Am. British A. Center, 1944-45; A. Am. A., 1944; Maxwell Gal., San Fran., 1945; Modernage Gal., 1945; Art: USA, NYC, 1958; Am. Acad. Arts & Lett., New York, 1959; Butler Inst. Am. Art, 1960; New Accessions USA, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Ctr., Colo., 1962; Agra Gal., Wash., DC, 1970s. Awards: Am. Soc. Contemp. Artists, 1971 (Beatrice S. Katz Award for Graphics); Natl. Soc. Painters in Casein, 1971 (Today's Art mag., medal of merit). Member: AEA (pres., 1970-); Conf. Am. Artists (chmn., 1971-); Audubon Artists (dir., 1971-); Nat. Soc. Painters in Casein (pres., 1966-70, hon. pres., 1971-); Am. Soc. Contemp. Artists (dir., 1971); S. Palestine Ar. and Sculp. Assn.; Rockport AA. Work: BMA; SFMA; Denver A. Mus.; John Herron Al; Tel-Aviv Mus.; Jewish Theological Seminary, NY; Cone Coll., Baltimore; MoMA; Norfolk Mus. A. & Sc.; Davenport Mun. A. Gal., Iowa; Everson Mus. Art, Syracuse, NY; Brooklyn Mus., NY; SFMA; Tel Aviv Mus., Israel. Comments: Preferred media: encaustic, casein, watercolors. Positions: art dir., Palestine Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1938-40; art consult., Palestine Sect., Int. Expos, Cleveland, 1947; ed., Improvisations, 1950-52; art consult., Am. Fund for Israel Inst., 1954-55. Publications: author: Art in Palestine (1939); "Art in Israel," Reconstructionist June 29, 1956. Sources: WW73; Stephen S. Kayser (exh. cat.), Elias Newman Exhibition, Jewish Mus., 1949; Henry A La Farge, "Review of Elias Newman Exhibition," ArtNews, Feb., 1949; Ralph Fabri, article in Today's Art, July, 1971. Elias Newman, a painter active in New York and Israel and best known for his watercolor landscapes, was born in Poland in 1903 and immigrated with his family to New York when he was 10. He studied for two years at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, then at the Educational Alliance Art School on the Lower East Side, where he later taught. Moses Soyer and Chaim Gross were among his classmates there. In 1925, Mr. Newman visited a brother who lived in Jerusalem. He stayed in what was then called Palestine for two years, mingling with local and emigre artists and painting the city and the surrounding countryside, paying particular attention to the astringent brilliance of desert light. He made many return trips, was active in art developments in the new state of Israel, and exhibited in both Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. After studying in Paris at the Academie Chaumiere in 1929, he settled in Manhattan where he married Judith Tesser. They spent summers on Cape Anne in Massachusetts, where Mr. Newman ran his own seasonal art school at Rockport from 1951 to 1964. The subjects of his paintings, in oil, gouache and encaustic as well as in watercolor, alternated between New England landscapes and expressionist-tinged biblical, Israeli and Hebraic themes. He showed regularly at the Babcock Gallery in Manhattan, as well as in Baltimore, Washington, Boston and Atlanta. His work is in several museum collections in the United States and Israel. Select Group Exhibitions 1929 Eged - Palestine Painters Group Allenby Street, Tel Aviv Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Reuven Rubin, Nachum Gutman, Sionah Tagger, Arieh Allweil, Haim Gliksberg, Yossef Zaritsky, Leon Arie Fein, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Elias Newman.
  • Creator:
    Elias Newman (1903, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1937
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Width: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)
  • Medium:
    Watercolor
  • Period:
    20th Century
  • Condition:
    Artwork is in good condition, matting is stained and needs to be replaced.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211307792
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