Art

Abraham Manievich, noted Jewish artist whose work has been praised by American and continental critics, will have a one-man show at the Academy of Allied Arts Gallery, 349 West 86th Street, until May 21. The exhibition has been arranged under the auspices of the Jubilee Committee to commemorate Manievich’s twenty-fifth anniversary of artistic endeavor.

His best known work is "The Destruction of the Ghetto," of which David Burliuk wrote that had the painter given the world only this picture, he would have won a place among the greatest artists of our time.

Ben Shahn’s exhibition, entitled "The Mooney Case," which comprises sixteen paintings in gouache (a method of water-color painting with opaque colors, mixed with water, honey and gum) will continue at the Downtown Galleries until May 20.

The interest in Shahn’s work is not only in the quality of his painting but in his selection of subject matter. He seeks to record permanently the spirit and idiom of our time. Last year his series of paintings called "The Passion of Sacco-Vanzetti" and his present pictorial treatment of the trial of Tom Mooney, indicate his combination of art and social propaganda.

Isac Friedlander, whose drypoint, "The Wandering Jew Takes Up His Burden Again," is reprinted on page 5 of this issue of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, is an artist who has had many exhibitions in New York during the past few years, his specialty being the print, particularly the woodblock. His most recent exhibition was at the New School for Social Research. His first show in New York was in February 1930, when his work was shown at the Kleeman-Thorman Galleries. Since then he has exhibited here and in traveling exhibitions on no less than eight separate occasions. He was represented in the Philadelphia Print Club Show in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Roerich Museum in a group show, at the Community Centre in New York, at the International Printmakers exhibition in Los Angeles, at the College Art Association’s group show, at the Art Centre in the Traveling Printmakers exhibition.

He sold his first print in 1914 to the Galeria Corsini, Rome, where he was a student, and he is represented also in the print collections of the Leningrad Museum, the Municipal Museum of Riga, the Prague Museum, and in several private collections, including that of Elmer Adler.