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Jacques Zucker pastel SIGNED Bezalel Israeli

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young boy pastel on paper signed drawing/painting Jacques Zucker, Jakub Zuker (1900-1981) Polish/American. WPA artist. Born in Radom, Poland, June 15, 1900; US citizen.

ran away from home at age 13 and made his way to the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem where he pursued his love of painting.
After serving with the British Royal Fulliers, Zucker left for Paris where he studied at the Academies Julien and Colarossi. In 1922, he emigrated to New York where he enrolled at the New York National Academy of Art while supporting himself as a jewelry designer. In 1925, Zucker returned to Paris and from this time until his death in 1981 he worked solely as a painter, dividing his time between New York and Paris. A man with an insatiable desire for travel, his paintings comprise scenes from the United States, France, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Mexico, Portugal and Italy, to name but a few. He held 28 one-man shows and participated in numerous group shows including shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Jewish Museum, New York, the Whitney Museum, New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.
More of his work can be found at: Bezalel Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Museum of Modern Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Helena Rubenstein Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Museum of Modern Art, Paris; plus many others including private collections in France, Israel, England, Sweden, Japan, USA and the world over.

Exhibits: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Institute Int, Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Style; Technique: Romantic expressionism, painting apres la nature.
Media: Oil, Pastel, Watercolor. The Bezalel school was founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz, who shaped its character.
His approach stressed both the practical and the ideal.
His vision was to develop useful arts and crafts among Palestinian Jews, thereby decreasing the dependence on charity.
At the same time, he sought to inspire his students to create a Jewish national style of the arts, in order to promote the Zionist endeavor.
Zucker's was a member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. Zuckers work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, Smith College, oil the Springfield Museum of Art, the Institute of Modern Art, Boston, the Worcester Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Boston Museum, the Association of American Artists 1940 and 1944, the Bignou Gallery 1946, the Wadsworth Athendeum, Yale University, Dudensing Gallery, Ferargil Gallery, Reinhart Gallery, Wildenstein Gallery. He was a contributor of articles in L'Art Vivant (Paris) and Esquire.

Zucker, in fact, made Paris his second home and he frequently participated in important exhibitions there. The influential French art critic and historian, Claude Roger-Marx, championed his art and in 1969 wrote the book, Jacques Zucker (published by Editions Paul Petrides).

Today the art of Jacques Zucker is included in the collections of the Butler Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, New York, and at the Israel Art Center. His correspondence is in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

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