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Samuel Rosenberg painting Chosen Land

Artist: Rosenberg, Samuel (American 1896-1972)
Title: Chosen Land
Date: 1945
Medium: oil on masonite
Dimensions: 24 x 20 inches
Description: a wonderful example of Rosenberg's "Stained Glass" period. This painting touches on Rosenberg's complex relationship with his Jewish identity and the aftermath of WWII, the holocaust, and the movement to establish a Jewish Homeland in Israel. The sitter obviously a religious Jew sits poised in an ambiguous interior deeply in thought.
Signature: signed and dated Samuel Rosenberg 45 lower right
Provenance: The Rosenberg Family, Pittsburgh Pa.; Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Edie Shapira and Mark Schmidhofer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Concept Art Gallery; The current owner
Frame Type: Period Cove frame painted by the artist
Frame Size: 32 x 28 inches

In generally very good original condition

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