Tag: Jewish family history

Naïve art: A painting of Edgware life

Naïve art, a lady walking her dog (detail)

This piece of naïve art, set in Edgware in about 1975, was originally described in an earlier post here. This painting was for me an exercise in nostalgia, recreating a place so familiar to me during my childhood. Apart from the Shabbat atmosphere, with its family meals and my Grandma’s special cooking, one of the […]

Historical painting: One family’s story, in a specially commissioned art piece

Historical painting; cossack horseman 1914 on horse, commanding

A commission for a historical painting Turka is a small town in Ukraine and became the subject of a specially commissioned historical painting. In 1914 at the beginning of World War I, it was in Polish territory, and occupied by Russian forces. The Stieglitz family was a well-to-do Jewish family with a large house in […]