Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica

God and Man in Art. An Exhibition of Contemporary American Religious Art, Craft and Architecture
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Curator

Eloise Spaeth.

Sponsor

American Federation of Arts.

Imprint

New York City, USA, 1958. Booklet, 23 pp., illustrations: 9 b&w, 22.7 × 23 cm. English.

Location

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex., USA (9 March–6 April 1958)

Description

A traveling exhibition of contemporary Christian and Jewish works of art and ritual. Foreword by Eloise Spaeth. Exhibits listed according to media (paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, stained glass, needlework, etc.), with Jewish items in most sections. Jewish ritual objects listed separately, pp. 16–19, cat. nos. 97–113. Basic listing. 175 items.

main keywords

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS, CONTEMPORARY/MODERN
JEWISH ART, CONTEMPORARY/MODERN
PAINTINGS
SCULPTURE

minor keywords

Challah covers
Drawings/Sketches
Hanukkah lamps
Jewelry
Keter Torah
Kiddush cups
Mezuzah cases
Ner Tamid
Painters, Jewish
Synagogues, architecture
Tass
Torah Ark curtains
United States
Yahrzeit/Memorial lamps

Other venues

Art Institute, Canton, Ohio, USA (17 April–8 May 1958); Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., USA (26 May–15 June 1958); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Ky., USA (1–22 July 1958); Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA (15 August–15 September 1958); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebr., USA (1–22 October 1958); Purdue University, Purdue Memorial Center, Lafayette, Ind., USA (6–26 November 1958); Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, Pa., USA (10 December 1958–10 January 1959); Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, N.Y., USA (1–21 February 1959); Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Md., USA (4–31 March 1959)

Cite this page
“God and Man in Art. An Exhibition of Contemporary American Religious Art, Craft and Architecture”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 06 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC0199>
First published online: 2019



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