“Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century,” by Andy Warhol is on view at the Temple Museum at The Temple-Tifereth Israel through June 2023. “A lot of discussion comes up from these…debating, ‘Well, who would be the 10 famous Jews of 21 st century?’” “We’re able to study these people,” Koletsky said. To reserve a timed ticket and redeem a discount, please call 41. “This is the time wherein we find Jews on the one hand being integrated into a number of societies and eventually into America…while at the same time we witness the destruction of Jewish life in Europe during the time of the Second World War and the Holocaust.” 1998.1.249 The Warhol offers several discounts on museum admission. “The moment we’re looking at, that is represented in these portraits is a moment wherein Jews struggled for citizenship, for equality, for acceptance, for dignity, for participation and contribution in a whole range of aspects of life,” the Temple-Tifereth Israel Rabbi Jonathan Cohen said. Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern. Heinzs 4 million gift to the Warhol Museum. “It’s much better that the public gets to see these.”įor the Temple-Tifereth Israel and its museum, the donation is transformative. Tate board member Chris Ofili calls on artists to donate work to the Tate whilst. “I knew that I wasn’t going to have a big enough space to have my five anymore,” Saltzman said. “They were in storage until we could find the right home for them and we just kept waiting and time just kept passing by.”įast forward to 2021 and Saltzman was downsizing from his home outside of Washington, D.C.
“We didn’t want them to be damaged,” Wolf’s sister, Nancy said. “He enjoyed them very much for maybe 10, 12 years until he passed away.”Īfter Wolf’s death in 2012, his family wasn’t sure what to do with his five Warhol portraits. “I drove five on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpike to Cleveland, and we hung them in his apartment and he enjoyed them very much for he couldn’t travel after that,” Saltzman said. Meanwhile Wolf’s five were stored underneath his friend’s bed for years until he returned to Northeast Ohio after falling ill.
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Warhol’s art handlers shipped the series to Saltzman who selected five of the portraits to frame and hang in his one-bedroom apartment. It includes the likes of Superman, Dracula, Santa Claus and Uncle Sam.
The series is based on characters from American Popular culture which have become icons, defining different generations. Ideastream Public Media Andy Warhol's "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century" is on view at the Temple Museum of Jewish Art, Religion and Culture at the Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood. This image of the Disney character Mickey Mouse belongs to a portfolio of ten screenprints called Myths published in 1981.
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