- Artist/Maker:
- Harry Lieberman
- Bio:
- American, b. Poland, 1880 - 1983
- Title:
- Shavuot - The Harvest
- Date:
- c. 1974
- Medium:
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 20 1/4 × 24 1/4 in. (51.4 × 61.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Helen Popkin
- Accession Number:
- 1992-88
Not On View
The painting Shavuot-The Harvest represents the festival that marked the beginning of the wheat harvest and commemorates the bringing of offerings to the Temple in Jerusalem and the giving of the Torah at Sinai. Attesting to Lieberman's Hasidic heritage, the work is filled with Kabbalistic symbolism such as the triangular form of the trees that denote the ten sefirot, or emanations, emerging from God.
Born in Poland, Lieberman emigrated to the Unites States in 1906. His twenty-seven year career as a naive artist began at the age of 76.
Born in Poland, Lieberman emigrated to the Unites States in 1906. His twenty-seven year career as a naive artist began at the age of 76.
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