I can now announce that the art exhibition of my father's artwork will take place on Sunday June 26, 2011 at 5 pm at the Skirball Museum on the campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
There will be approximately 35 to 40 pieces of his work ranging in dates from the early 1930s to when he resumed creating artworks in the 1950s and 1960s. The earlier pieces will be pen and India ink drawings followed by his watercolor paintings.
It is my hope that local and nearby artists, and people that love to see the fine workmanship of a man who loved his craft and created some very nice pieces will attend.
Stay tuned.
Simeon Zigler Self Portrait
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I have to take exception with my brother Fred's statement that our Dad "resumed creating artworks in the 1950s and 1960s." That's entirely untrue! Throughout the 1930s and well into the 1950s, he was an avid and accomplished amateur photographer, who did all his own B&W film processing and printing until the early '50s. He continued to sketch and draw in many medias throughout this period during which he had abandoned painting. And that doesn't even begin to take into consideration his great accomplishments in three dementional work in wood and a variety of metals.
My Dad was such a realist! As best he could to his abilities, he drew what he saw. Not only did he show how the thickness of his glasses magnified the size of his eyes, but there's foreshortening of his head, making it look more round and less elongated than it was, because he's looking downward and leaning forward towards a mirror as he's drawing himself.
My Dad was such a realist! As best he could to his abilities, he drew what he saw. Not only did he show how the thickness of his glasses magnified the size of his eyes, but there's foreshortening of his head, making it look more round and less elongated than it was, because he's looking downward and leaning forward towards a mirror as he's drawing himself.
My Dad was such a realist! As best he could to his abilities, he drew what he saw. Not only did he show how the thickness of his glasses magnified the size of his eyes, but there's foreshortening of his head, making it look more round and less elongated than it was, because he's looking downward and leaning forward towards a mirror as he's drawing himself.
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