Interactive Timeline of Ary's Artwork

Representational

Palestine Watercolors

Morocco Drawings

Early Abstracts

New York Folio

Drawings

Prints

Early Mexican

Gouaches

Houston-
Cuernavaca

Leyendas

Morocco Drawings (1926)

It must have been in 1926 or '27 that Ary traveled through Spain and then down to Morocco and Fez. The Foundation has a sketchbook of pen and ink drawings recording the landscape, the architecture, and the Arab types, single or in groups. Quick sketches, they have captured the mood and character of the landscape and the people. Traveling was always an adventure for Ary, and here in northern Africa he sought out the most colorful and exotic corners he could find. In Fez he wandered through Arab sections where the French had warned Europeans not to venture. In Morocco he was drawn to the Jewish ghetto section; there he found synagogues and Hebrew schools so poor that they could not afford books for the students; the boys sat in a circle around the leader, who held a copy of the Talmud in his hands and the youngsters learned to read from whatever angle they could see the book.

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Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figure
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Landscape
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figure
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]
Morocco
Moroccon Figures
1926
pen on paper
[Foundation Collection]

 

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"From the Summer of ’50, Luminous Drawings"
By Benjamin Genocchio
August, 19, 2007

Sayville #23

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Ary Stillman: From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism

From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism Edited by James Wechsler Foreword by Donald Kuspit

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Ary Stillman
(1891-1967):
Spirits of the Underworld

Spirits of Underworld

Van Deren Coke Gallery
at the University of
New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

October 7-December 2, 2008

Foundation's Catalog 2007

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