Exhibit opening at the Yiddish Book Center:

Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Artists 
October 16, 2011 - February 15, 2012
Brechner Gallery

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building · 1021 West Street · Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: 413-256-4900 · Fax: 413-256-4700

This unique exhibit features more than 80 paintings, drawings, and photographs created by 17 different artists for I. B. Singer's books and stories. Exhibited artists include Larry Rivers, Maurice Sendak, Raphael Soyer, Roman Vishniac, William Pene Du Bois, Ira Moskowitz, Eric Carle, Leonard Everrett Fisher, Antonio Frasconi, Irene Lieblich, and Margot Zemach.

Irene Leiblich, "Partisans," from Isaac Bashevis Singer's
The Power of Light Eight Stories for Hanukkah
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980

Winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer's prolific legacy of books and stories are a pillar in the canon of Yiddish and Jewish literature. The visual interpretations given to his work by various artists reveal a fascinating variety of approaches, matching the author's own varying themes and moods.

Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Artists is on loan from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York.