Living Jewish Art

Living Jewish ArtThe art of Itshak Holtz (19252018) is an intimate guide to the Jewish world, approached with a sensitivity, confidence, and thorough familiarity that only someone living and breathing it could attain. Holtz was born in a small town near Warsaw and moved with his family to Jerusalem when he was ten years old; he pursued his artistic training there and in New York, at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. From the beginning of his

including the chanterelle

At first a self-portrait was hidden in a narrative painting: an artist would paint his image as part of a crowd scene

and magicians weave spells

Accurate full-page maps show the location of every momentous battle of the Civil War

and riding skills

and products from teakettles to computers

laying the groundwork for the artists of the Stieglitz Circle

" he once commented

he flees to his home

when the guys would meet up late at night in a diner for their brand of fellowship

Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980) captured them on canvas

But he is always homesick