- Artist/Maker:
- Joan Snyder
- Bio:
- American, b. 1940
- Title:
- Study for Morning Requiem with Kaddish
- Date:
- 1987-88
- Medium:
- Oil and acrylic on linen, mounted on board with nails and wire
- Dimensions:
- 12 × 48 in. (30.5 × 121.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of Barbara and Bruce Berger in honor of Ruth and Herman Glickman and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Accession Number:
- 1989-135
Not On View
Intensely expressionistic in style and symbolic in her choice of content, Snyder links Jewish subject matter with broad social issues. In the central panel, her use of the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, is associated with a small stick figure implying cruelty to children.
To the left are barren grapevines, suggesting children's suffering, and to the right, a field of sunrises.
This painting is an important contemporary demonstration of Jewish identity at a time when an increasing number of artists are incorporating personal content into their work, consistent with their formal and expressive needs.
To the left are barren grapevines, suggesting children's suffering, and to the right, a field of sunrises.
This painting is an important contemporary demonstration of Jewish identity at a time when an increasing number of artists are incorporating personal content into their work, consistent with their formal and expressive needs.
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