Yom Kippur

Baila Feldman's art embraced many periods and styles.  Towards the end of her career her paintings showed a naive primitivism with a joyful feeling of motion reinforced by bright colors.  Many of these paintings had brilliant skies or backgrounds - sometimes using gleaming gold leaf like a medieval illuminated manuscript.  The painting at right, found on an auction site for Clars Auctions is part of the "Dancing Rabbis" series.

Baila wasn't particularly religious, but she celebrated cultural and ethnic traditions in her art.

Do you have any of her work?  Please let me know.  E-mail me a photograph and I'll post it here for other fans of Baila's work to see.

Photo credit:  http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7046904
...where it is described thus:
"Framed oil and gold leaf on canvas, ''Yom Kippur,'' by Baila Feldman, signed ''Baila'' lower right, inscribed verso, overall: 36.88''h x 22.19''w. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Judah L. Magnes Museum."

Painting by Baila

Baila Feldman was a talented artist active in Berkeley, California in the 1960s and early 1970s.  She won numerous awards and had dozens of exhibitions in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and other, farther, places such as New York and Malaga Spain.

 She died of cancer in August of 1972.  There was a memorial exhibition of her work at the Judah L. Magnes Museum from January to February 1973.  This site is dedicated to her painting, sculpture, poetry, and graphic arts.  During her career she nurtured students, and sold hundreds of works.  These works are distributed in many people's homes and now are in the hands of a generation that may not remember her.  I intend this site to share her work, and also function as a clearinghouse and contact point for those who possess her art or want to learn more about it.