YESHIVA JUDAICA SCENE ETCHING ART BY SAUL RASKIN

YESHIVA JUDAICA SCENE ETCHING ART BY SAUL RASKIN

Vintage dated circa 1940s etching with a judaica themed scene. Yeshiva, an Early Jewish Schooling. Hand signed and titled at lower out of plate area. Saul Raskin was a Russian born American artist, writer, lecturer and teacher best known for his depiction of Jewish subjects. He was born in 1878 in Nogaisk in the Russian Empire now known as Prymorsk in Ukraine. He studied lithography in Odessa and then traveled extensively in Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland visiting art schools and working as a lithographer. Raskin immigrated to the United States arriving in New York City in 1904 or 1905. On Raskin's eightieth birthday he said "I am an artist and I am a Jew, but first and above all, I am a Jewish artist, for Jewishness is the source, the centrality, the essence of my art, as it is the essence of my being." Raskin was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Society of American Etchers, the Audubon Artists, and the New York Watercolor Club.Raskin died in New York in 1966.

Dimensions: Frame 15 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. Plate 9 x 7 1/2 in. All measurements are approximate.