The Art of Jacob Barosin

Collection ID

ART.001279

Type

Art

Date

1960s

Geography

New York United States

Language

N/A

Medium

Watercolor on Paper

Dimensions

17.63 × 22.38 in. (44.78 × 56.85 cm)

Exhibit Location

Not on View

In this self-portrait, Barosin depicts himself as an older artist with a brush in his hand. The delicate drapery of his shirt and the careful application of the watercolors show his incredible talent for detail.

Jacob (Judey) Barosin (1906–2001) was a Jewish artist born in Riga, Russia (now Latvia), who fled to Berlin, Germany, shortly before World War I. He was forced to flee again to Paris, France, in 1933, after Hitler rose to power. Due to anti-Jewish laws established by the Nazis, Jacob and his wife, Sonia, spent the next four years running from the Gestapo. After the war, Jacob and Sonia immigrated to the United States, where Jacob made a living as a sketch artist for NBC-TV. He also illustrated the Jewish Family Bible, created a series on Jesus called the Life of Christ for the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and held numerous exhibitions in the United States and Israel. Collections of material related to Jacob Barosin’s life and work can be found at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, and Museum of the Bible.

Originally created in the 1960s by Jacob Barosin, New York, New York; [1] Inherited in 2001 by Peter Garik and Katherine Greenblatt, Boston, Massachusetts; Donated in 2023 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.

Notes: [1] Exact date is unknown, but the style is like other works by him in the 1960s, after he and his wife moved to the United States.

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