Synagogue
Object number2001.51.6 a,b
Artist
Joseph Jacobs
Date1982
MediumWatercolor on paper
Credit LineGift of Joseph Jacobs
DescriptionWatercolor on paper. Image of a grey synagogue with blue Star of David and fence-like images in lower to middle right. Artist's signature bottom right.Dimensions25.9999 x 19.25 in. (66 x 48.9 cm)SignedBottom right corner: Jacobs 3-82
Label TextBorn in Braddock, Pa., artist Joe Jacobs moved from the area when he was a teen. In 1982, after dreaming about his childhood, he spent the next year painting and drawing Braddock as he remembered it from the 1930s. Agudath Achim Synagogue, the site of his bar mitzvah, is the subject of Synagogue.
Related institution
Agudath Achim Synagogue
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Birkenfeld Schofer
