THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Oct. 6, 1972-13

Jewish Artists
of USSR to Be
in NY Showing

NEW YORK — The works
of two Soviet Jewish artists.
Boris Penson and Anatole
F7,Ian, will be exhibited on
the first floor of the Jewish
Museum Oct. 18-Nov. 26.
"Boris Penson: Art From
a Soviet Prison" is a selec-
tion of 93 paintings, water-
colors and prints which were
smuggled out of the Soviet
Union after the artist's incar-
ceration in 1970.
Penson, who was born in
1946 in Tashkent, Uzbekhis-
tan, was reared by his
mother while his father
served a seven-year forced
labor sentence. He started
painting seriously after be-
gining his studies with paint-
er Simon Gelberg. When he
was 17, Penson was himself
arrested and served 31/2
years of a five-year sentence.
After his release, he painted
very actively, but could
neither show nor sell his
works.
Between 1968 and 1970, he
became active in the Jewish
national movement in the
USSR and sought emigration
to Israel. His own request
for exit visas for himself and
his family was rejected. He
was again arrested in June
1970 and sentenced to 10
years of forced labor for al-
legedly attempting to steal a
plane to cross the border and
escape to Israel. He is ser-
ving the second year of that
sentence. At the time of his
arrest, all his personal prop-
erty was confiscated.
The exhibition is sponsored
by the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry
under the auspices of ,the
National Conference on So-
viet Jewry.
"Anatole Kaplan: Graphic
Works" comprises litho-
graphs selected from several
American collections and
from the collection of the
Jewish Museum.
Kaplan was born in 1902
in the provincial town of Ro-
gatchev in Byelorussia, the
birthplace of Marc Chagall
and Chaim Soutine. He was
graduated He was graduated
from the Leningrad Academy
of Arts and was one of the
first members of the Artists
Union.
The theme of Kaplan's
work is Jewish folklore, a
notable example being his se-

ries of illustrations and inter-
pretations of the stories of

Sholom Aleichem. To the 3.-
000.000 Jews living within the
boil+ers of the Soviet Union,
he has served for many
years as poet-historian, re-
cording and interpreting the
experience of the Russian
Jew.
Although he is represented
in the collections of all major
Soviet museums, he is famil-
iar mainly to Jews and a
small number of intellectuals
within the Soviet Union. He
was virtually unknown in the
West until a major exhibition
of the works of Soviet artists
was mounted at the Grosve-
nor Gallery in London in
1961. Since, then, there have
been many exhibitions of his
lithographs throughout the
world.

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