Summer of 2010 Exhibitions Now Open
Andy Warhol–Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century
June 6 – September 5, 2010
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the
most famous as well as prolific Pop artists of the 20th century. His extraordinary
series of portraits is a remarkable tribute to the lasting achievements of renowned
individuals–he referred to it as “my
Jewish geniuses.” First shown in 1980 at the Jewish Museum in New York and
the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, these
portraits have attained iconic status. They
depict Sara Bernhardt, French actress; Louis Brandeis, first Jewish justice of the
Supreme Court; Martin Buber, philosopher and educator; Albert Einstein, theoreticalphysicist; Sigmund Freud, founder of the
psychoanalytical school of psychology; the Marx Brothers, vaudeville, stage and
film comedians; Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister and one of the founders
of the State of Israel; George Gershwin,
composer; Franz Kafka, novelist; and Gertrude Stein, writer, poet and playwright.
OJM is delighted to be able to exhibit
the full set of prints, on loan from the Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.
Andy Warhol, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth
century: The Marx Brothers, 1980 © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine
Arts, New York
Phil Decker–Traces of the Jewish Lower
East Side
At 2:00pm photographer Phil Decker and Ellen Eisenberg, Professor of American History, Willamette University, will do a gallery walk-through of Traces of the Jewish Lower East Side
Large numbers of Jewish-
Americans acknowledge the
Lower East Side as an important
place of origin. Between 1880
and 1924 over 2.5 million
Jews immigrated from Eastern
Europe through Ellis Island. This
exhibit, created by documentary
photographer Phil Decker,
includes his own contemporary
images of the Lower East Side, accompanied by historic photos taken by the early 20th century documentary photographer Lewis Hine.
Thank You!
With the support of our generous sponsors, attendees, and Mitzvah Moment contributors - and - the hard work of the Tribute Dinner committee members, staff and vendors, "A Night to Remember" was a huge success.
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