Images(4)

Painting

Object number2023.111.3

Artist Curtis Herbert

Date2010

MediumCanvas; Paint; Wood; Metal; Ink; Graphite

Credit LineGift of Jewish Association on Aging

DescriptionUnframed painting on rectangular canvas. Painting is divided into three vertical sections. Viewer's left section has gray, white, and yellow background with original Jewish Home for the Aged at top and two portraits of Rabbi Aaron Mordechai Ashinsky. Center section features view of original Weinberg Village buildings with two cars and landscaping and roadway in front and Rabbi Mordecai Glatstein and Rebbetzin Cyna Glatstein in foreground. Viewer's right section has view of Charles M. Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with six staff and residents of the Jewish Association on Aging in the foreground. Artist signature in the viewer's bottom right area. Painting has wooden strainer.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 48 x 72.5 x 1.5 in. (121.9 x 184.2 x 3.8 cm)
SignedArtist signature painted in the viewer's bottom right area "Curtis / Herbert / 2010"; signature appears overwritten in black marker.
InscriptionsPainting has painted black text in the viewer's top right corner "CHARLES MORRIS / NURSING AND / REBILITATION [sic]".

Reverse's proper left cleat and top strainer member above the proper left cleat have handwritten graphite text "A".

Top strainer member has handwritten graphite text above proper right cleat "B".
MarksBottom strainer member has numbers at center "071117".

Related person Rabbi Aaron Mordechai Ashinsky (1886 - 1954)

Previous owner Jewish Association on Aging

Related institution Pittsburgh Steelers

Related institution Jewish Home for the Aged

Related person Rabbi Mordecai Glatstein

Related person Rebbetzin Cyna Glatstein

Related institution Weinberg Village

Related person Rabbi Eli Siedman

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