Jewish American Artists and the Gilded Age

Thursday, June 16, 2022 from 7–8 p.m.

This lecture will look at Henry Mosler and Moses Jacob Ezekiel, one-time Cincinnatians who went on to achieve great fame in their day, and their vital contributions to Jewish American art.

Speaker Bio: Samantha Baskind, Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University, is the author of five books, most recently The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture. She has contributed more than 100 articles and reviews on art, identity, and religion to museum catalogues, academic journals, edited volumes, encyclopedias, and the mainstream press. She served as editor for U.S. art for the 22-volume revised edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica and is series editor of “Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination,” published by Penn State University Press. She is currently writing a book about the nineteenth-century Jewish American sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel.

Members, $10; general public, $20; Students, $5

Reservations are required. Lecture will take place in Fath Auditorium (ground level).

This exhibition was generously supported by:

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