Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Eye of the Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka

Robert Motherwell Untitled 1967 Lithograph, 28" x 23"
On display February 3 - April 27, 2008 - A Traveling Exhibition created by the Hebrew Union Museum of New York. This exhibition, gathered from the Sigmund Balka Collection of the HUC, "encompasses the expression of European and American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries as they encountered the challenges of modernity." The exhibition includes images of traditional Jewish life and religion while it documents the Jewish quest to make a new home in America and the fate of those caught up in the Holocaust. Featuring works on paper from artists such as Max Beckmann, Ben Shahn, Jacques Lipchitz, Raphael Soyer, Chaim Gross, Leonard Baskin, Will Barnet, Robert Motherwell, and Larry Rivers, the exhibit tells the story of the Jewish journey over the last two centuries.Through its extensive national and international relationships with major museums, the Sherwin Miller Museum is able to bring you the only viewing of this exhibition outside New York City. Opening in the Special Exhibitions Gallery February 3, The Eye of the Collector is an opportunity to experience great works of art rarely exhibited in the Midwest.
Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art
2021 East 71st Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136
918.492.1818 - 918.492.1888(fax)

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