- Artist/Maker:
- Maurice Sievan
- Bio:
- American, b. Ukraine, 1898-1981
- Title:
- Southern Sunset
- Date:
- 1930s
- Medium:
- Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions:
- 10 15/16 × 8 5/16 in. (27.8 × 21.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lee C. Sievan
- Accession Number:
- 1988-35
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During the 1930s many Jewish artists identified with the persecuted African-Americans in the South, whose situation they saw as analogous to the contemporary plight of their own co-religionists in fascist Europe.
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