James N. Rosenberg: Paintings

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georgia museum of art

fifty ye15 ago James N. Rosenberg_and I were law clerks together, starting our careers in a small but busy law firm at 99 Nassau Streer, New York CIty. The imprelssion he made then was one of vital energy, witlr klen_ and quick mentaliry. i anticipated a big future for him at the bar, so, was not when thi firm which he headed developid the lead-surprised (and ing bankruptcy practice in New York that meanr in the world). He betame widely known as a specialist in reorganizations during the depression of the 1930's.

Rosenberg geve without stint of his time and efforts

to philanthropic work also, especially After the first World War he beiame head of the'American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, largest Jewish relief organization in the world.

He is now honorary chairman of that Commiitee. He vras also headof the American Society

for European people in

distress.

for Jewish Farm Seitlements in Russia. His committee rransferred over 300,000 gheno dwe[l".o ft q city slums to farms in the Crimea. The doing of this great work requiied a year of his time-in Europe. During Hitler's regime he formed the Doirinican.Republic Association to_

[ansfer [,uropean refugees of all faiths to that tropical island for a new itart in the world.

He is chairman of the Genocide Commimee and alsb of the Committee on Human Rights of the Nadonal Conference of Christian and Jews.

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he was enough interested in art to visit Woodstock, New York and take a course in painting lessons. Loving the beauty of the mountain landscapes, he maintained a summdr abode in the Adirondacks-fhere, by frequently dabbling in art-learning to use the palette knif'e, the brushes and his fingers, he slowiy developed thi Rosenberg style of heavy impasto painting. IIe found he could iecreate the giandeur ir appeal of the sienis around him. ihur, he gained relief and perspective from hir arduous law practice. At 65 he showed rhat he had the good- sense to.know when he had nrade enough of the world's goods and retiretl from acdve law practice. He devoted his time to beEoming a real artist.

The 60 Paintings of his in our galleries cover his art work from the time he was 50 years of the present day. The characteristic of these pictures is uniry in variery. The large maiority of- his paintings mark his personality as one of happiness arid optimism, a devotee 6f nature in all its moods and especially the stormy ones. But Rosenberg knows too well rhar the path of life has a seamy side and rhat many have a continual strug[le to exist. Some of his paintingp exemplify this grim phase of living. what he calls his-'Tlronism paindngs" show the smoke and smog of mechanized factorieJ and blasted scenes in narure. Wtrite trii "Atomism Art" forecasts rhe tragic devastation of the atomic bomb in future wars.

I count this exhibition anlutstanding event in the early life of our New Museum. ege. to.

Alfred H. Holbrook, Director, Georgia Museum of Art

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1. Sunburst 2g. The Village z. orchards 29. Dusk at Litfle pond 3. Gray day Bo. June Tulips 4, oak ,i. rhper,", "r*r,- : a - --5.ThereAreTroutinthisPool.32.TheoIdBarnsCrumble 6, My rFriend the Old White Horge ia. A Bit of Sky 7, The Haunted Barn '.

84. Snow Flurry r. Bs. Sparkle of Leaves 8. Storm Brewing 9. Weather 36. The Stolm WiIl pass (pastel) 10. Skating pond 27. sunlight on Barns (pastel) 11. Petting Rain 88. Melodramatic Moonrise lz. Two Barns Bg. Golden Autumn 13. rndians cau It walking Bain 40. Flight from the Downpour

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42. rr," piluct"d ri"ra 44. Black Storm (pastel)

2o,WetPoplarLeaves.dreMirrors45.ThisWasOneeaFarm 46. Green Pastures, God and the Plaeid Skull 21. Hide and Seek 22.opal47.NewsDeseendingtheStaircase(Past€l_Cartoon) 24. Purple Dusk

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wagon 26. Three Birch Trees 27. Picnic-Geismar Family Hay

49. V. J. Day-A.dirondaek festlvall-nevef flnished 50. The Magniflcence of war (pastel) 51. Return o, ,rrf. Division (Pastel) 1919-.-see cata.log 51. !9F"?ll"{,Cgtalo€ue of Exhibition Return of 2?th Division after \fforld War I.

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Flight from the Bomb-Uniinished Triumph of Science Wall Street After the Atomie Bomb

experiments in portrait painting 56. Fortrait Study 67. Self Caricature of James N. Rosenberg 58. Many Portraits of Louis Untermeyer

59. Rosenberg by Wayman Adarns 60. Rosenberg by Joseph Margulies 61. Rosenberg by $erge Sondekin

acried. xiews 62. Rain and Wind Mamaroneck Gardens Eilshemius Landscape

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City A.iluseurn of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and. Atkins Kansas, City, Mo. _Museum, Smithsonian'Institute, Washington, D. C. Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Boston, lVlass.

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Carnegie Institute, Pittsberg, Penn.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Clevelan4 Ohio Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts, Brunswick, fuIaine .Joslyn Memorial Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma smith co'ege r\{useH.

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Baltimore fuIuseum, Baltimore, Md.

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Association of the Bar, New York City

Albany

rn"i*i.-"i iririo.y ,rrd Art, Albany,N.Y.

Hebrew Union College, New York City Roosevelt House Gallery, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida U. S. Embassies, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.