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