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)

Museum-Gallery Collection

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]
Egyptian Jew
Egyptian Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Polish Jew
Polish Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Patriarch
Patriarch
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Yemenite Jew
Yemenite Jew
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Head
Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Head
Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]
Head
Head
1925,
watercolor,
[Museum Collection]

 

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