Interactive Timeline of Ary's Artwork

Representational

Palestine Watercolors

Morocco Drawings

Early Abstracts

New York Folio

Drawings

Prints

Early Mexican

Gouaches

Houston-
Cuernavaca

Leyendas

Palestine Watercolors (1925)

 

In 1925 Ary went by ship to Palestine, where he remained for six months. In Jerusalem he made dozens of watercolor sketches of the city and its types, a crowd of youngsters usually surrounding him, and always a self-appointed leader to drive the unruly ones away. He roamed the hills and slept in primitive Arab towns; in one of them he contracted malaria and was desperately ill, and there were recurrences of the illness for years afterward. He photographed Chaim Weizman and Lord Balfour at the opening of the Hebrew University for the Rotogravure Section of the New York Times. He was asked by a prominent Arab to photograph his wife and daughters; it was the first time they had unveiled their faces to a stranger.

Arab Boy
Arab Boy
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Blue Beard
Blue Beard
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Egyptian Jew
Egyptian Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Head of a Boy
Head of a Boy
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Head of a Boy
Head of a Boy
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Head of a Boy
Head of a Boy
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Head of a Man
Head of a Man
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Head of a Man
Head of a Man
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Man with Beret
Man with Beret
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Palestine Landscape
Palestine Landscape
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Palestine Street
Palestine Street
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Palestine Countryside
Palestine Countryside
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Palestinian Head
Palestinian Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Palestinian Head
Palestinian Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Polish Jew
Polish Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Patriarch
Patriarch
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Yemenite
Yemenite Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Israeli Boy
Israeli Boy
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Yemenite Jew
Hasidic Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Yemenite Jew
Yemenite Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Palestine
Palestine
1925,
watercolor,
[Private Collection]
Head
Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Head
Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Head
Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]

 

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New York Times

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

Sayville #23

Current Exhibition

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Ary Stillman: From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism

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

Upcoming Exhibition

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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