%C2%A9 Anatoli Luovitch Kaplan
Title page from "Tevia the Milkman", 1957-61
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Gift of the children of Shirley Dworsky (1926-2004), honoring her wishesexpand_more 2017.124.1
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The prints of Russian artist Anatoli Kaplan bring to life the lost world of the Jewish shtetl (small village) in the Russian Empire before the Holocaust. Kaplan focused on the subject in his art despite religious repression in the Soviet Union, and following World War II, this became an even more central subject for the artist, as Jewish life and culture in Russia had been destroyed by the end of war. His celebrated series of lithographs Tevia the Milkman illustrates stories of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), whose 1894 book became well known through many theater productions in Europe and New York before becoming the basis for the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof in 1964.
Details
- Title
- Title page from "Tevia the Milkman"
- Artist Life
- Russian (born Belarus), 1902 - 1980
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2017.124.1
- Provenance
- Art market, London ('Grosvenor Gallery) or Germany, to Karlen; Charlotte and Markle Karlen, St. Louis Park, Minn. (from '1966; sold to Dworsky); Shirley Dworsky, St. Paul, Minn. (until d. 2004); bequeathed to daughter, Shosh Susan Dworsky, St. Paul (2004-2017); given to MIA, 2017.
- Curator Approved
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© Anatoli Luovitch Kaplan