HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Enduring Images May 4, 2015 – January 31, 2016 David Filderman Gallery

Front image credit: Yonia Fain (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) Prisoners, 1970 Oil on canvas 28 x 52 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of the artist, HU2012.14 This exhibition is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the

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My first encounter with the internationally recognized artist/poet As a “witness to history,” Yonia Fain’s works add to the compendium of art Yonia Fain took place in the fall of 2007, in his Brooklyn, created by other important artist observers of their times. In this exhibition, Enduring Images, curator Kristy L. Caratzola has drawn from the Museum’s New York, home. From that first meeting a firm friendship and permanent collections to highlight examples of artists such as Luis Cruz mutual admiration blossomed and grew over the subsequent Azaceta, Leonard Baskin, Romare Bearden, Jon Corbino, George Grosz, years, until Yonia’s death at the age of 100 in late 2013. Käthe Kollwitz, Jacob Lawrence, Gilles Peress, and Andy Warhol. Through paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and works on paper the artists Yonia Fain was that rare individual with such a deeply felt spirit of humanity communicate over distance and time capturing moments in our history and and life-affirming personality, that despite his real-life experiences of deep culture that have had a lasting impact. The selected works underscore the personal loss of family and country, and World War II, as power that art has for capturing the conflict, beauty, horror, and pain of an well as subsequent life shifts requiring him to assimilate to new terrains event or era that the artist observes and records. The exhibition emphasizes and cultures, his spirit and commitment to mankind remained undaunted. the essential role of the artist as communicator, impacting our thinking and Throughout his life, resonating in every canvas, drawing, work on paper actions related to major crises and tumultuous events. While this exhibition and within the five volumes of Yiddish poetry that he created, and which is not “thematic” in its presentation, it does touch upon core issues such as brought him much acclaim, Yonia communicates essential messages of hope civil rights, World War I and II, genocide, prejudice and discrimination, as and the affirmation of life. well as the impact of natural disasters.

As a professor and scholar, Yonia had deep ties to Hofstra University, serving Through the selected works of art, we pay tribute to the role of the artist on the faculty from 1971 to 1985 as he taught art history and the philosophy as crucial to providing the humanistic side of the events of the past and our of art. In commemoration of his 100th birthday, President Stuart Rabinowitz present, in such a manner as to provide an indelible visually interpretive awarded emeritus faculty status to Yonia, a distinction and honor more record for all time. typically reserved for faculty with more than 20 years of service to the University. This honor was met with heartfelt appreciation by Yonia. Beth E. Levinthal Executive Director, Hofstra University Museum

4 5 events as they unfolded. Peress’ method of inserting himself into evolving Curator’s Statement circumstances of social unrest resulted in foreboding images of unarmed Northern Irish civilians being sprayed by fire hoses seconds before British soldiers fired into the crowd during the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972. This immersive reporting style subsequently led Peress to make three separate journeys to central Africa to gather photographic evidence Enduring Images employs paintings, photographs, prints, in the immediate aftermath of the mass killings of Tutsi refugees by Hutu-led militias in Rwanda that occurred between April and July of 1994. drawings, and sculpture to offer insights into the role that artists His uncompromising efforts brought the consequences of U.N. inaction to play as “witnesses,” embedded activists or subjective observers light and demonstrated the tragic effects of escalating ethnic tensions that in representing crucial moments in modern global history. were compounded by centuries of colonial intervention and exploitation. The artworks presented in this exhibition serve as lasting records In 1963 Danny Lyon supported the cause of the Student Nonviolent that document interrelated issues of war, genocide, tyranny, Coordinating Committee as the group’s staff photographer, archiving civil oppression, civil rights, and imperialism. Works by Käthe rights rallies and marches across pivotal states in the American South. Kollwitz, George Grosz, Jean-Louis Forain, Abel Pann, and Toward the end of the decade, Lyon gained access to inmates incarcerated in Yonia Fain reflect their own experiences and acknowledge the the Texas penal system to create his series later printed as “Conversations with the Dead.” Stark images such as Shakedown Before Returning to the atrocities of the World Wars, the Holocaust, and the Russian Building bring into focus the dehumanizing daily routine of prisoners, many of Pogroms of the early and mid-20th century. Expressionist whom had been sentenced to die for their crimes. This timely photo-essay self-portraiture, frenetic mark-making and satirical caricatures addressed the link between the lives of his subjects and the legacy of Jim reveal these artists’ own struggles to come to terms with how Crow laws – laws which resulted in economic and educational inequity and a lack of access to effective legal representation. Lyon’s documentation also these horrors affected them as well as the lives of millions of explored the morality of capital punishment in the . victims and survivors. The civil rights movement is further memorialized in prints by Jacob The black and white photographs of Gilles Peress and Danny Lyon often Lawrence and Andy Warhol that directly reference the confrontation blur the line between art and journalism, but undeniably capture the reality between marchers and police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, of contemporary history. Throughout their careers these two artists have Alabama, in 1965, and the violent clashes on the streets of Birmingham, repeatedly entrenched themselves into the epicenter of emerging cultural Alabama, in 1964. The artists’ use of high-contrast simplified forms belie and social conflicts with an unyielding sense of urgency to report current the complexities of the era, and Lawrence’s saturated palette is used

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ironically to communicate the tragedy that he portrays. The legislative and Tilson’s Bela Lugosi III aggressively juxtaposes contentious topics with social reforms that followed the sacrifice of the civil rights freedom fighters tabloid journalism. Scenes depicting physical abuse of power by law allowed the voices of underrepresented communities to be expressed enforcement, a bandaged child, and chemical warfare are framed within on newly recognized artistic and political platforms. Romare Bearden’s an irregular black border along with a pageant contestant, a victim of an cut-paper and found image collages and photogravure prints of the 1970s alien abduction, and sequential photographs of a grinning orangutan. The introduced a larger audience to the American Black Experience through artist’s subtly subversive caption above the posing beauty queen that reads fragmented images that intertwine aspects of memory, family ties, regional “Miss World Police,” is a critical pun which allows the viewer to decipher religious practices, and personal mythology. His unique and innovative meaning from his ostensibly disjointed message. process melded together the themes of cultural tradition, coming of age, hardship, triumph, and hope. Bearden’s cohesive aesthetic can be Although Enduring Images exposes the darker side of humanity, this interpreted as a metaphor for reconciling the scattered pieces of one’s selection of artworks is a testament to the resilience of the survivors who own identity and the healing of figurative cultural wounds inflicted over keep their stories alive and honor the memory of those lives lost so that a lifetime. their suffering and sacrifice will not be in vain. In keeping with this mission, artists often put themselves at great personal risk to confront those who British artists Richard Hamilton and Joe Tilson appropriated their subject commit mass violence, tyranny, and corruption and challenge the matter from popular culture, newspapers, print ads, billboards, and complacency of the status quo. In doing so, they become vulnerable to television broadcasts. Their indirect and seemingly removed methods career-ending criticism, exile, and physical harm to raise awareness of contradict the emotionally charged compositions of Kent State, 1970 and international and local crises. Their compelling artworks are a call to action Bela Lugosi III, 1969. Like Bearden, Hamilton and Tilson deconstructed that speak to the power of the individual to effect change. They are a and re-contextualized existing imagery into new forms, but their aesthetic reminder of our collective responsibility to build upon and commemorate language presented controversial topics with the slick, graphic quality of the work of those who came before us. commercial advertising. The formatting, typography, and overall design of these works propagate the illusion that the subjects in the images are fictional characters or products for sale. Hamilton’s large-scale print Kristy Caratzola recreates a televised BBC report of the shooting of student demonstrators Collections Manager, Hofstra University Museum by members of the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State campus. On that day, the instantaneous nature of modern mass media happened to coincide with the artist’s decision to position a camera in front of his TV set in anticipation of a breaking news story.

8 9 Luis Cruz Azaceta (American, born in Cuba, 1942) Leonard Baskin N.O. HEAD (Post Katrina), 2008 (American, 1922-2000) Permanent ink and Band-Aid on paper First Angel to the , 1990 50 x 37.5 in. Etching, ink on paper Hofstra University Museum Collections 3rd State-Proof Gift of Sharon Jacques 30 x 22 in. HU2012.44 Hofstra University Museum Collections © Luis Cruz Azaceta, George Adams Gallery, New York, 2008 Gift of Pearl Rabinowitz, HU2001.5.7

10 11 Romare Bearden Jon Corbino (American, 1911-1988) (American, born in Italy, 1905-1964) The Train, 1974 Flood Refugees, 1937-1938 Photogravure and aquatint with Oil on canvas hand-washed color on paper 13.875 x 22 in. 17.75 x 23 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of The Estate of Edith H. Proskauer Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg, HU86.215 HU77.15 Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

12 13 Yonia Fain Yonia Fain (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) Uprising, 2008 The Victim, 2008 Mixed media Mixed media on paper 24 x 36 in. 24 x 36 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of the artist, HU2012.23 Gift of the artist, HU2012.24 © Yonia Fain © Yonia Fain

14 15 Jean-Louis Forain George Grosz (French, 1852-1931) (American, born in Germany, 1893-1959) The French People Do Not Know How to Make War, 1915 A Mighty One on a Little Outing Surprised by Two Poets, 1942 Charcoal, ink, and watercolor on paper Oil on paper mounted to board 21.25 x 26 in. 38 x 30.25 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg Gift of the Estate of Arnott J. White HU86.172 HU93.9 Art © Estate of George Grosz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

16 17 K äthe Kollwitz Jacob Lawrence (German, 1867-1945) (American, 1917-2000) Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners), 1908 Confrontation on the Bridge, 1975 Etching, ink on paper Color screenprint on paper 18.25 x 22.25 in. H.C. 1/25 Hofstra University Museum Collections 19.5 x 26 in. Gift of Philip James, HU70.104.2 Hofstra University Museum Collections © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg, HU91.29 © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

18 19 Abel Pann Abel Pann (Russian, 1883-1963) (Russian, 1883-1963) At Two Hours Notice, from the series The Cossacks Knout, from the series In the Name of the Tsar, 1917-1920 In the Name of the Tsar, 1917-1920 Lithograph on paper Lithograph on paper 18 x 11.75 in. 11.75 x 18 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg HU86.220.9 HU86.220.10

20 21 Gilles Peress George Rodger (French, born in 1946) (British, 1908-1995) Massacre Site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda, 1994 Williamson Diamond Mine (laborers loading gravel From the portfolio Flashpoints – into the concentrating pans), 1949 Selected Images by Gilles Peress, 1997 Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print 7.375 x 9.125 in. 16 x 20 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Brenda Hochberg and David Dalgarno Gift of Susan and Steven Ball, HU98.19.3 HU2007.6.20 © Gilles Peress/Magnum Photos © George Rodger/Magnum Photos

22 23 Isaac Soyer Joe Tilson (American, born in , 1902-1981) (British, born in 1928) Untitled (study for an oil painting) Bela Lugosi III, 1969 20th century Color screenprint on paper Pastel on paper 32 x 23.5 in. 26 x 32 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Sheldon Block, HU79.76 Gift of Michael Dinkes © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London HU96.28

24 25 Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) (American, 1928-1987) Birmingham Race Riot, from the portfolio X + X Sitting Bull, 1986 (Ten Works by Ten Painters), 1964 Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board Extra, out of the edition. Screenprint on paper Designated for research and education purposes only. 20 x 24 in. 36 x 36 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Dr. Milton Gardner, HU83.47 Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / HU2013.19 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

26 27 Jean-Louis Forain Käthe Kollwitz Exhibition Checklist (French, 1852-1931) (German, 1867-1945) The French People Do Not Know Selbstbildnis (self-portrait), 1912 Enduring Images How to Make War, 1915 Etching, ink on paper Charcoal, ink, and watercolor on paper 10 x 8.125 in. 21.25 x 26 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Luis Cruz Azaceta Yonia Fain Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Philip James, HU70.104 (American, born in Cuba, 1942) (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg N.O. HEAD (Post Katrina), 2008 The Guard, 2012 HU86.172 Permanent ink and Band-Aid on paper Mixed media on paper Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000) 50 x 37.5 in. 24 x 36 in. Confrontation on the Bridge, 1975 Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections George Grosz (American, born in Germany, 1893-1959) Color screenprint on paper Gift of Sharon Jacques, HU2012.44 Gift of the artist, HU2012.39 A Mighty One on a Little Outing H.C. 1/25 Surprised by Two Poets, 1942 19.5 x 26 in. Leonard Baskin Yonia Fain Oil on paper mounted to board Hofstra University Museum Collections (American, 1922-2000) (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) 38 x 30.25 in. Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg First Angel to the Jews, 1990 The Mountain, 2012 Hofstra University Museum Collections HU91.29 Etching, ink on paper Mixed media on paper Gift of the Estate of Arnott J. White 3rd State-Proof 24 x 36 in. HU93.9 30 x 22 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Danny Lyon (American, born in 1942) Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of the artist, HU2012.12 Shakedown Before Returning Gift of Pearl Rabinowitz, HU2001.5.7 Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-2011) to the Building, 1968-1969, from the Yonia Fain Kent State, 1970 series Conversations with the Dead, 1971 Leonard Baskin (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) Color silkscreen on paper printed Vintage gelatin silver print (American, 1922-2000) Prisoners, 1970 from 13 stencils 11 x 14 in. Homage to the Un-American Oil on canvas AP 33/50 Hofstra University Museum Collections Activities Committee, 1959 28 x 52 in. 28.5 x 40.5 in. Gift of Jon and Nicky Unger Bronze, 11 x 11.25 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections HU2009.8.1 Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of the artist, HU2012.14 Gift of Dr. Milton Gardner Gift of Dr. Milton Gardner, HU81.7 HU80.16 Abel Pann Yonia Fain (Russian, 1883-1963) Romare Bearden (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) Käthe Kollwitz At Two Hours Notice, from the series (American, 1911-1988) Uprising, 2008 (German, 1867-1945) In the Name of the Tsar, 1917-1920 The Train, 1974 Mixed media Beim Dengeln Lithograph on paper Photogravure and aquatint with 24 x 36 in. (Sharpening the Scythe), 1905 18 x 11.75 in. hand-washed color on paper Hofstra University Museum Collections Etching, ink on paper Hofstra University Museum Collections 17.75 x 23 in. Gift of the artist, HU2012.23 14.375 x 17.875 in. Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg, Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections HU86.220.9 Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg Yonia Fain Gift of Philip James, HU70.104.1 HU86.215 (American, born in Ukraine, 1913-2013) Abel Pann E The Victim, 2008 Käthe Kollwitz (Russian, 1883-1963) xhi on orbino Mixed media on paper J C (German, 1867-1945) The Cossacks Knout, from the series In b (American, born in Italy, 1905-1964) 24 x 36 in. Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners), 1908 the Name of the Tsar, 1917-1920 ition Flood Refugees, 1937-1938 Hofstra University Museum Collections Etching, ink on paper Lithograph on paper

Oil on canvas Gift of the artist, HU2012.24 18.25 x 22.25 in. 11.75 x 18 in. C

13.875 x 22 in. Hofstra University Museum Collections Hofstra University Museum Collections h ec Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Philip James Gift of Carole and Alex Rosenberg k

Gift of The Estate of Edith H. Proskauer HU70.104.2 HU86.220.10 l HU77.15 ist

28 29 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Gilles Peress George Rodger (French, born in 1946) (British, 1908-1995) Stuart Rabinowitz Bottom of William Street One Minute Williamson Diamond Mine President Before the British First Parachute (laborers loading gravel into Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law Regiment Opened Fire, Killing Thirteen the concentrating pans), 1949 Civilians – an Event Now Known as Gelatin silver print Herman A. Berliner Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland, 1972 7.375 x 9.125 in. Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs From the portfolio Flashpoints – Hofstra University Museum Collections Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor Selected Images by Gilles Peress, 1997 Gift of Brenda Hochberg and David Gelatin silver print Dalgarno, HU2007.6.20 16 x 20 in. HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Hofstra University Museum Collections Isaac Soyer Gift of Steven and Susan Ball (American, born in Russia, 1902-1981) Beth E. Levinthal HU98.19.12 Untitled (study for an oil painting) Executive Director 20th century Gilles Peress Pastel on paper Karen T. Albert (French, born in 1946) 26 x 32 in. Associate Director of Exhibitions and Collections Massacre Site, Nyarubuye, Hofstra University Museum Collections Rwanda, 1994 Gift of Michael Dinkes, HU96.28 Caroline S. Bigelow From the portfolio Flashpoints – Senior Assistant to the Executive Director Selected Images by Gilles Peress, 1997 Joe Tilson Gelatin silver print (British, born in 1928) Kristy L. Caratzola 16 x 20 in. Bela Lugosi III, 1969 Collections Manager Hofstra University Museum Collections Color screenprint on paper Gift of Susan and Steven Ball 32 x 23.5 in. Tiffany M. Jordan HU98.19.3 Hofstra University Museum Collections Development and Membership Coordinator Gift of Sheldon Block, HU79.76 George Rodger Nancy Richner (British, 1908-1995) Museum Education Director Andy Warhol Kruger National Park (finding a (American, 1928-1987) snare set by poachers for buck), 1948 Birmingham Race Riot, from the Renee B. Seltzer Museum Educator Gelatin silver print portfolio X + X (Ten Works by Ten 7.375 x 8.687 in. Painters), 1964 Hofstra University Museum Collections Screenprint on paper Marilyn Zucker Museum Educator Gift of Brenda Hochberg 20 x 24 in. and David Dalgarno Hofstra University Museum Collections HU20 07.6. 24 Gift of Dr. Milton Gardner, HU83.47 Graduate Assistantship Frantz Lucien Jr.

George Rodger Andy Warhol (British, 1908-1995) Graduate Student Assistants (American, 1928-1987) Joie M. Johnson-Walker Williamson Diamond Mine (tractor- Sitting Bull, 1986 drawn scraper leveling ground), 1949 Chelsea Laggan Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Lindsay Ralbovsky Gelatin silver print Board Extra, out of the edition. 7.375 x 8.375 in. Designated for research and education Undergraduate Student Assistants Hofstra University Museum Collections purposes only. Gift of Brenda Hochberg Baylee Caudill 36 x 36 in. Roberto Hernandez and David DalgarnoHU2007.6.18 Hofstra University Museum Collections Claire Ramirez-Raftree Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for Julia Szaniawska the Visual Arts, Inc., HU2013.19

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